criticism

criticism

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen. Orlando
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. Of Human Bondage
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.
I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.