488 Quotes About Critics

Advice is often free but context worth a king's ransom

The great revenge is to outlive your critics.

Critics and scholars have always been suspicious of popular success; often their suspicions are justified. In other cases, these suspicions are used as an excuse not to think. No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person. Give smart people half a chance and they'll ship their oars in drift.

Critics are like, oh it's a brilliant book but if the writer had tightened up the plot a bit more and used less winding phrases, it would've been much better.Really? Why the hell didn't you write that book then?

No one has ever questioned the credentials of a critic who writes a rave notice. (249)

The purpose of criticism is to tell you what you do not have or cannot control.

If there is any indication of how an author and her books can affect change, look at the proof of her works on society. And ignore the critics and the trolls. -Strong by Kailin Gow on How Her Indie Success helped motivate and inspired others to become authors and how her books with strong women leads helped the film industry to portray more strong women leads

Critics, in other words, idiots.

Honest critics are continually finding blind spots in their taste: they discover the possibility of recognizing a valid form of poetic experience without being able to realize it for themselves.