"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

Criticism, Writer

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"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

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"Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within."

Edmund Husserl, German Philosopher

Criticism, Now, Understanding

"But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages."

Edmond About, French Novelist

Criticism, France

"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."

Billy Joel, American Musician

Criticism, Praise

"Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove."

Juvenal, Roman Poet

Criticism, Censure

"Critical feedback shared in good faith is inherently a constructive dialogue. A "critique, a term that is both a noun and a verb, represents the systematical application of critical thought, a disciplined method of analysis, expressing of opinions, and rendering judgments."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Criticism, Critique, Dialogue, Analysis, Judgment

"Praise to the undeserving is severe satire."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Criticism, Satire, Praise, Irony

"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Criticism, Prejudice

"When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on."

Heinrich Heine, German Poet

Criticism, Clowns, Heroes

"You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters."

Peyton Manning, American Athlete

Criticism, First

"Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Criticism, Conversation, Language, Communication

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"It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him."

Family

"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla."

Family

"At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly."

Youth

"Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt."

Agreement

"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been."

Man

"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day."

Age

"The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face."

Future

"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."

Future

"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."

Power

"The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story."

Fact