“I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature. I've written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it's important for people to know that theatre is vital. Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town. Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It's killing new plays, demolishing one after another.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldKindImportantPlayLiteratureEnjoyWrittenAppreciateCriticismTownsKillingTheatreConsumersDiscouragingAdvocacy Author:Adam Rapp
“The only time I get upset by things written about me - when people write irresponsible things about my weight... I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.” PeopleWritingLooksYoungGirlWrittenAppreciateWeightUpsetLook UpOnly TimeIrresponsible Author:Victoria Beckham
“As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!” PeopleWritingSongWishWrittenAppreciateSongwriters Author:Dolly Parton
“I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.” KindCharacterFoundSpeakRolesWrittenAppreciateAtonementWritten WordSpoken WordNonverbal Author:Saoirse Ronan
“I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.” IfsKnowsWritingMadeWholeSeemsMightWould BeCitiesWrittenTeachingReadyPoetSafeJokesAppreciateWestLovelyDrunk Book:Collected Poems, Prose & Plays Source: Collected Poems, Prose & Plays
“I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written.” WritingBookCareNovelEconomyPathWrittenAppreciateWitNovelistsPlotSoberEleganceHustleStarksNoirStylist Author:Terry Teachout
“How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001.” IfsWantRealityHappensSecretWrittenLoversAppreciateBottomHidingCanvasViewersShacklesLeonardoMona Lisa Author:Stanley Kubrick