488 Quotes About Critics

She didn't even insult me. She just didn't compliment me. This is how fragile the ego can be in connection with our creative expressions. The critic's voice is so powerful because it resonates with the voices of our deepest fears, those voices speaking from the inside of us, telling us that we are not good enough. The critics confirm our repressed and terrified suspicions that we don't measure up, that we are unsafe and unlovable.

It's what we don't say that weighs the most.

Life is too short to not tell someone you love them if you do. And we all do.

Just as a critic jumps at an obscure modern poem to tear it apart and bring out the hidden meaning, this woodcutter was ripping open the pith of the massive logs. God seemed to have designed him to chop wood--he derived the greatest pleasure in life by chopping monster-like logs.

Soccer writers seemed as starved for entertainment as art critics, anything vaguely enjoyable gets promoted to the level of genius. ~ 219

_Not really liking it much_ is a precondition of art criticism of all kinds. /275

Critics always praise precision in writing, and some great writers (Joyce, Beckett, Gustave Flaubert) are masters of clarity—but one of the great (and seldom mentioned) resources of fiction is vagueness.

The best and sober critic is that which focuses on the writings, but not on the writer without imposing the view of anyone.

If I have critics, it means I was courageous.