488 Quotes About Critics

The relationship between the critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue or the dog and lamp post.

Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts!  surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become.

All great people had critics, but they still believe in beauty of their dreams.

Critics like mailmen delivering unwanted news.

Well, I thought it was a dog, and the critics did, too. Woof.

I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.

It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed, no man likes owing anything to his contemporaries. The repeated but irrelevant points of congruence between Joyce's Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey continue to attract (though I shall never understand why) the dazzled admiration of critics.

Never wrestle with pigs for the pigs remain clueless and you end up muddy.

We're our own hardest critics and it's easy to let ourselves down. Sleeping too late. Procrastinating.