A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ''Oh, I don't like it.'' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
A louse in the locks of literature.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure — critics all are ready made.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.