In one’s relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

The aim of language…is to communicate…to impart to others the results one has obtained…As I talk, I reveal the situation…I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

I’m not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.

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.

Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is one of the essential constituents of our understanding of reality. From the time...

Whenever a journalist wrote an article about him that was critical in nature… he would invite them to a meal and at first they assumed they were in trouble for being critical of him. But...

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one...

relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the experience of the reader or viewer. The reader or viewer remains passive in the face of the book...

A novel is a tricky thing to map.

Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.

Until you stop blaming and become positively self-critical you are not going to move forward.

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don’t want...

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe.

The dreams you have that may meet mockeries from the lips of negative people will yield the success that will squeeze tears from their eyes later! Dare to resist every negative criticism and persist to...

Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.

Nobody kicks a dead dog

Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was what it appeared to be: if you were afraid your plane would crash...

A critic can call any poem ‘doggerel.’ That is no more than a slur. ‘Doggerel’ or ‘maudlin’ or ‘sappy’ or ‘sentimental’ is in the ear of the listener. By the by, ‘sentimental’ is okay as...

You can critique her writing, but not her lifestyle.

To call you my critic is to call you my friend.

The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of...

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

When you are criticised don’t ignore it, but don’t get overpowered by it, and certainly there is no need to be defensive about it. Rather, wait for a while and then weigh up its merits...

In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.

Some criticism, no doubt, is constructive, but too much is a subtle poison.

A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I’m just a pathetic “druggie” with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of “recovery!” They...

Let us return for a moment to Lady Lovelace’s objection, which stated that the machine can only do what we tell it to do. One could say that a man can “inject” an idea into...

If only it were as easy to do the work of othersas it is to criticize their performance.

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

Outside of the dreary rubbish that is churned out by god knows how many hacks of varying degrees of talent, the novel is, it seems to me, a very special and rarefied kind of literary...

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

sometimes in your works, give people the opportunity to express their ignorance; then you prove the wrong with your works.

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

People are more inclined to ask what’s wrong than what’s right. They note errors and faults, seeing weaknesses before strengths. So expect criticism; it’s the nature of the beast.

Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were born.

People love to Criticize,If you are criticized dont worry,Do what you feel is moral and right, Because you’ll be criticized anyway.

Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can...

If you can’t fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is...

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn’t know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men – to dish it out without being able to take it – the blind leading the blind into more blindness.