Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?
David IvesI have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
Edmund WilsonTag: learning news fools critics papers
Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I criticised things'. 'I beg your pardon?' 'You know, other people wrote things, performed things, painted things and I said stuff like, "thin and unconvincing", "turgid and uninspired", "competent and serviceable,"...you know'.
Stephen FryTag: critics
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: wisdom art knowledge writing writers art-criticism insight critics music-criticism music-journalism
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: art arts creativity criticism artists academia critics art-history academics
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: imagination art genius criticism artist academia nerd nerds genius-stupidity critics nerdery
The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.
R.M. EngelhardtTag: poetry on-writing literature critics reading-readers-writers r-m-engelhardt
Critasism is just a way of saying i'm jelous of your talents
Rayvon L. BrowneTag: talents critics rayvon-l-browne cheryl-linton
Anaemia is an illness primarily affecting characters in novels.
Marchel Reich-RanickiTag: inspirational criticism critics
[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics combined to discredit an author’s nose for things, he would be reduced to a fearful creature who took a mistakenly guarded, absurdly cautious approach to his work, which would end up stifling his latent genius.
Félix J. PalmaTag: writing writers criticism critics
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