#critics

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#anything #applied #become #concepts #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

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

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. ↗

— Edward Albee

#both #critics #dull #faculties #like

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. ↗

— Edward Albee

#between #critics #difference #group #humans

I love having critics for breakfast. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#critics #having #i #i love #love

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#amazing thing #critics #find #lost #me

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#brain #charts #count #critics #half

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become. ↗

— David Coverdale

#criticism #critics #dine #get #gets

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#ashamed #author #belief #boundaries #critics