#critics

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#angelou #being #critics #heart #maya

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#absolutely #always #calls #criticism #critics

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#meals #people #photographs #states #taking

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

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cry #finest #full #hears #human

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#being #came #capable #could #critics

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

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work. ↗

— James Caan

#been #critics #doing #i #lucky

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves. ↗

— Rio Ferdinand

#bang #been #biggest #critics #most

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