#critics

When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#along #blood #critics #doing #else

I have spent a good many years since--too many, I think--being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #writing-life #life

So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time. ↗

— Dario Argento

#critics #haven #i #long #long time

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. ↗

— Jack Levine

#critics #directors #had #movement #museum

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply. ↗

— Russell Baker

#critics #even #expecting #friends #important

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#critics #else #encountered #few #having

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#because #been #brown #certain #certain way

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#angry #course #critics #detest #feel

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too. ↗

— George Carey

#critics #described #expert #i #jesus

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#ask #critics #does #dog #dogs