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Quotes about critics and criticis
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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. (Difranco Ani)
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. (Difranco Ani)
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. (Difranco Ani)
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. (Difranco Ani)
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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. (Difranco Ani)
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard. (Difranco Ani)
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. (Difranco Ani)
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. (Difranco Ani)
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens. (Difranco Ani)
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution. (Difranco Ani)
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. (Difranco Ani)
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (Difranco Ani)
Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer. (Difranco Ani)
In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable. (Difranco Ani)
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks. (Difranco Ani)
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic. (Difranco Ani)
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. (Difranco Ani)
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. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse. (Difranco Ani)
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. (Difranco Ani)
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone. (Difranco Ani)
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. (Difranco Ani)
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination. (Difranco Ani)
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. (Difranco Ani)
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded. (Difranco Ani)
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. (Difranco Ani)
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