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 OdoyevskyThis is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.
Kurt SchwittersTags: art creativity criticism critics objectivity
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.
Harold BloomTags: critics academic lemmings
Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.
Benjamin FranklinTags: critics
Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.
Brenda UelandTags: friends writing freedom critics
When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.
Jodi PicoultTags: self-esteem self-awareness self-confidence critics self-love
Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: wisdom life inspirational truth philosophy excellence critics
I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.
David FarlandTags: books writing fantasy critics
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
PlutarchTags: inspirational art criticism critics
Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
Abraham LincolnTags: war leadership critics generals george-b-mcclellan united-states-congress
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