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“In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.”

Writing Ends Like You Critics Not Afraid

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.”

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Author:Jennifer Weiner

“What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.”

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Author:Thomas Hood

“I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die”

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Book:Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

“You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Flower Critics

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.”

Writing Said Blood Cold Hot Critics Spontaneity

Author:Billy Joel

“As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.”

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Author:Damien Hirst

“The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?”

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Author:Adam Gopnik

“When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.”

Knows Writing Critics Sublime

Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

“The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first started writing for the cinema. . . . Now I feel that only the literary mind can help the movies out of that cul de sac into which they have been driven by mere technicians and artificers.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.”

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Book:Language and Silence

Source: Language and Silence

“It's very hard, I think, for critics to write positive reviews, because there's not that much to say about something you like. You can kind of say 'I really like that band' and then if you're forced to fill up the rest of an article, you've got to start saying heady things. It's much easier to say negative things in a review.”

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Author:Mitchell Hurwitz