You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.