I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?
Despite its many critics, hydraulic fracturing will change the nature of energy production.
The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.
The critics don't bother me.
I know all the critics.
Especially in the food business, critics take very seriously how much power they have. They can shut a restaurant down.
People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
I've published a couple of short novels in France that I didn't want to publish in English because I loved the characters too much to subject them to American critics who were not exactly favorable toward my work.
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
The contribution of Anthony William Greig to English cricket has been underestimated because of his allegiance to Kerry Packer and his choice to recruit players for World Series Cricket while still the England captain. His critics hold that as a black mark against him, which rules out anything else he may have done.
I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'
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.
This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.
By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.
I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.
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.
Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service.
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
When we worked on 'Girls,' we've had some really meaningful dialogue with our fans and with critics and really learned a lot of things. Like, on the question of diversity, we heard people, and we responded, which is very different from, like, 'Hey fatty, what are you doing on TV?' And that's what we're trying to avoid.
I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.
I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.
Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.
