The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. – Isaac D’Israeli
I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. – James Whistler
The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue. – Ashwin Sanghi
A literary critic is someone who can’t write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! – Brian Lumley
According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped. – Mark Tobey
At first, I wasn’t sure whether I’d be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that. – Francois Truffaut
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. – Clive Bell
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. – P. G. Wodehouse
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn’t know to write. – Mary Garden