Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

I have often misunderstood men grossly, and I have misrepresented them when I understood them, sacrificing sense to make a phrase. Here, of course, is where even the most conscientious critic often goes aground; he...

In the past few years, more and more passionate debates about the nature of SFF and YA have bubbled to the surface. Conversations about race, imperialism, gender, sexuality, romance, bias, originality, feminism and cultural appropriation...

If you think it’s offensive that I call alleged biblical miracles ridiculous, you should ask yourself whether or not it’s ridiculous to insist that Muhammad flew on a winged horse. Or that the earth was...

She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they expected you to be silent and grateful, and always reminded you of how...

The fact that we are now crusaders needn’t blind us to the fact that for a very long time we have been, as Badger would say, echidnas. I can think of a hundred ways already...

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they...

At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to seem of little account, mere fantasy or ritual, or downright falsification....

ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Critical voices have to care about history. We have to care about the way in which things get controlled in the past because that’s when the damage gets done and if we don’t keep that...

Introspection precedes constructive criticism.Introspeksi mendahului kritik yang membangun.

Easy to be a critic; hard to be a quarterback.

No American soldier should be allowed to se t foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

You can’t be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life’s masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in such a condescending, casual tone, but he is a ‘writer’, and a talentless mediocrity!People...

The popular distinction between ‘constructive’ and ‘destructive’ criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To...

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you’re very pessimistic about that society. And it’s only when you speak...

Now, if there were an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating then this administration would take the gold, world-records for violations of national and international law. They want another four year term to continue to...

It is believed that the critics are the men who have failed in literature and art. It is so in social life, too. Without any egoistic interest nobody criticizes the government. Give the critics the...

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and...

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not...

Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly...

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision,...

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns”(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song ‘Hero’by Mariah Carey)

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Wenn wir uns der Verfolgung des freien Geistes während der Diktatur besinnen, werden wir die Freiheit jedes Gedankens und jeder Kritik schützen, so sehr sie sich auch gegen uns selbst richten mag.”[Ansprache am 8. Mai...

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by...

I took a lot of criticism for not recruiting Manitoba kids. But those kids, in most cases, were going the route that was the best fit for them, and that was to play junior ball.

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private...

Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation–who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him–but he must go on writing, reflecting...

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

One of the Christian’s biggest fears is appearing ‘too Christian’. God forbid, because that’s often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being ‘one of them’.

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can’t stop.

If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good

He’s the President—it’s the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it’s warranted.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

I get real upset when I hear criticism about Ron.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don’t like in ourselves.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other’s faults.

There are those who see film and take it seriously as an artistic medium, and others who go to have a good time, to simply be entertained. I have to be careful , because it...

It’s easy to criticizing or assuming people’s talent what really they’re,then you’re still outside, step in, take a chance and explore them.

If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.

As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald’s most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes “are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through their social relationships. They cannot distinguish between social values like popularity,...