#critics

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#critics #god #i #like #never

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#critics #execution #good #just #review

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#self-awareness #self-confidence #self-esteem #self-love #change

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. ↗

— Robert Burns

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It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#hard #journalists #market #mercy #movie

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#accommodation #airline #articles #bags #beautiful

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#critics #each #exists #filmmakers #harshly

Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please. ↗

— Samuel Wesley

#dress #gaudy #modest #neat #please

A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the house in which he actually lived, not far from the old house of his fathers. Of the rest he took some and built a tower. But his friends coming perceived at once (without troubling to climb the steps) that these stones had formerly belonged to a more ancient building. So they pushed the tower over, with no little labour, and in order to look for hidden carvings and inscriptions, or to discover whence the man's distant forefathers had obtained their building material. Some suspecting a deposit of coal under the soil began to dig for it, and forgot even the stones. They all said: 'This tower is most interesting.' But they also said (after pushing it over): 'What a muddle it is in!' And even the man's own descendants, who might have been expected to consider what he had been about, were heard to murmur: 'He is such an odd fellow! Imagine using these old stones just to build a nonsensical tower! Why did not he restore the old house? he had no sense of proportion.' But from the top of that tower the man had been able to look out upon the sea. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#beowulf #criticism #critics #fantasy #literature