"God created the poet, then took a handful of the
rubbish that left and made three critics."
- T. J. Thomas
"Critics are to authors what dogs are to the lamp-post."
- Jeffrey Robinson
"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames
they would say it was because I couldn't swim."
- Margaret Thatcher
"I write from my soul. This is the
reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was
pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know
who I am."
- Paulo Coelho
"My idea is always to reach my
generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the
critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"When my time on earth is gone, and my
activities here are passed, I want them to bury me upside down, and my critics
can kiss my ass!"
- Bobby Knight
"What bothers most critics of my work
is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be
funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does,
because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and
separate them is fallacy."
- Tom Robbins
"Critics have their purposes, and
they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried
away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning
themselves with what they did."
- Duke Ellington
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