Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.

If yourhands are tied towardsanyone who's in need ofa helping hand, let yourtangue also be tied

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

To engage with criticism, is on some level, a validation of that which otherwise would go unnoticed.

The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Es gibt Menschen, die es zeitlebens einem Bettler nachtragen, daß sie ihm nichts gegeben haben.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.