"Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art."

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"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"There is no such thing as constructive criticism. There is constructive advice, constructive guidance, constructive counsel, encouragement, suggestion, and instruction. Criticism, however, is not constructive but a destructive means of faultfinding that cripples all parties involved. Don't be fooled into thinking otherwise."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

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"Some who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no reason to complain, since I have similar opinions of their work, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Criticism, Poetry, Quality, Humor

"And we hate this possibility in movies; we hate this "both" shit. "Both" comes off as sloppy characterization, muddy filmmaking, lack of focus. ... But I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it required of us an empathetic confrontation with the exact same muddy bothness in ourselves and our intimates that makes the real world of moral selves so tense and uncomfortable, a bothness we go to the movies to get a couple hours' fucking relief from."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."

"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"

"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."

"Some who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no reason to complain, since I have similar opinions of their work, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."

"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."

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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

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"The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels."

"Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others."

"All is mystery, but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil."

"There is no education like adversity."

"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."

"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."