Criticism Quotes — Page 32

Napoleon Hill

Author, Motivational Speaker

“One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you.”

World Way Criticism

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Karl Kraus

Playwright, Journalist

“Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.”

Writing Criticism Critics

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Jack Nicholson

Actor, Filmmaker

“I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.”

Care Criticism

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Fran Lebowitz

Author, Essayist

“You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.”

Criticism Taste

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Oscar Wilde

Writer

“All criticism is a form of autobiography”

Form Criticism Autobiography

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Karl Kraus

Playwright, Journalist

“A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.”

Criticism Artistic Abbreviations

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Oscar Wilde

Writer

“No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.”

Men Book Criticism

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Oscar Wilde

Writer

“Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.”

Moving Artist Criticism

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Harlan Ellison

Author

“I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I read - and I don't need their criticism, what I need is my own - when I read it aloud, there is a flow, there is a poetry to it.”

People Two Criticism

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Nicholson Baker

Author

“First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.”

Want Way Criticism

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.”

Mean Criticism Boots

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?”

Use Criticism

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