Quotes with critic

  • Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
  • Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
  • Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
  • I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
  • Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them.
  • A critic knows more than the author he criticises, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
  • The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.
  • Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
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  • Kenneth Tynan A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
    Kenneth Tynan
    English theater critic and writer (1927 - 1980)
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  • William Shenstone A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Pauline Kael In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
    Pauline Kael
    American film critic (0 - 2001)
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  • William Archer One of the first and most important things for a critic to learn is how to sleep undetected in the theater.
    William Archer
    Scottish writer and theatre critic (1856 - 1924)
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  • John Keats Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Walter Benjamin The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • John Steinbeck Time is the only critic without ambition.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Channing Pollock A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • H. Manning A critic knows more than the author he criticises, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
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  • Augustus William Hare A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is oftener an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief.
    Guesses at Truth
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Wilson Mizner A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Bernard Williams A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Kenneth Tynan A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
    Kenneth Tynan
    English theater critic and writer (1927 - 1980)
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  • Walter Bagehot A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • James Russell Lowell A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • James Russell Lowell A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Hortense Calisher An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
    Hortense Calisher
    American writer (1911 - 2009)
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  • Susan Sontag Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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