#critics

I have always said that whomever has limited preferences cannot be a critic, for the same reason some guy who only likes blondes cant be a jury in a beauty contest, for his idea of beauty is predefined and not based on dynamic reality. Thus, what people call 'preferences' are in fact exactly what makes them blind. For this reason being a writer also means you essentially cannot have the same markup as ordinary people, because getting rid of the precomposed is a too essential part of the whole dynamics of writing. ↗

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

#critics #beauty

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#critics #forced #i #i am #many

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#i #reach #readers #regardless #written

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#critics #less #me #more #more or less

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career. ↗

— Kate Smith

#career #critics #extremely #i #lucky

I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. ↗

— William Styron

#friends #i #i think #think #unfortunate

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#cricket #critics #haven #know #me

Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#bush #counterterrorism #country #critics #defend

At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits of decorum; literature itself was a totally extraneous matter in critical articles: they were pure invective, a vulgar battle of vulgar jokes, double-entendres, the most vicious calumnies and offensive constructions. It goes without saying, that in this inglorious battle, the only winners were those who had nothing to lose as far as their good name was concerned. My friends and I were totally deluded. We imagined ourselves engaged in the subtle philosophical disputes of the portico or the academy, or at least the drawing room. In actual fact we were slumming it. ↗

— Vladimir Odoevsky

#critics #imagination

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone? ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#authors #book #book-cover #books #criticism