Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
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Robert A. Heinlein
I started this dirty quote business when I noticed that I only tend to read authors when their quotes convince me of wit and style. In a world overflowing with bad literature and corrupted product-placement critics the only weapon one has is either word of...
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Martijn Benders
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting...
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Stephen King
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.", October 31, 1977]
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John Osborne
Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.
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Jeffrey Robinson
More Quotes By Richard Le Gallienne
Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.
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.
The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding the chin in doubt and the chin at bay.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
What when drunk one sees in other women one sees in Garbo sober.
