This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.
Kurt SchwittersTags: art creativity criticism critics objectivity
Writers shouldn't fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. Criticism is healthy. It gets people thinking about your work and, even better, it gets them talking and arguing. But as for silence -- it is the greatest killer of writers. So if you hate a book and want to hurt it -- don't talk about it. And if you hate my books -- please, for God's sake, shout it from the hills!
Robert FanneyTags: books writing silence criticism
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
Jean de La BruyèreTags: happiness pleasure criticism critique
On Art Garfunkel - He makes Paul Simon look like LL Cool J.
Ian GittinsTags: criticism art-garfunkel ll-cool-j music-humor paul-simon simon-and-garfunkel
Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.
Stephen PotterTags: humor books writing criticism
People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.
Guillaume ApollinaireTags: criticism
Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or rather he had tried to plagiarize them without much success, which led him, after long reflection (a whole summer night), to the astute decision that he should write in the manner of Odoevsky and Lazhechnikov. Fifty percent Odoevsky and fifty percent Lazhecknikov. This went over well, in part because readers, their memories mostly faulty, had forgotten poor Odoevsky (1803-1869) and poor Lazhechnikov (1792-1869), who died the same year, and in part because literary criticism, as keen as ever, neither extrapolated nor made the connection nor noticed a thing.
Roberto BolañoTags: reading writing literature criticism 711
Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
Abraham LincolnTags: criticism
Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.
...I hate it because of all the potentially shining, gentle, gifted people of all ages, that it snuffs out every year. It is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the very first ones to get killed off. It is the brutal egotists that survive.
Tags: writing literary-criticism criticism sensitivity
In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
John SteinbeckTags: literature criticism
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