“Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.”
“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
“There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.”
“Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.”
“A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.”
“They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.”
“All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.”
“A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.”
“The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.”
“Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.”
“I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.”
“Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.”
“Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.”
“A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.”
“Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.”
“We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.”
“The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.”
“Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.”
“It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.”
“Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.”
“Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.”
“A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.”
“I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.”
“The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.”
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.”
“Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.”
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
“The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.”
“A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.”
“Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.”