Critics Quotes

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

It's those damn critics again.

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

I think women are excellent social critics.

Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.

Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

I know all the critics.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.