I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.

Don't deceive yourself; laughing at someone's weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.

The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can't do. However, be careful they don't set you up to take fatal risks to please their criticisms.

Our critics make us strong!Our fears make us bold!Our haters make us wise!Our foes make us active!Our obstacles make us passionate!Our losses make us wealthy!Our disappointments make us appointed!Our unseen treasures give us aknown peace!Whatever is designed against us will work for us!

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

All great people had critics, but they still believe in beauty of their dreams.

What your critics say about you is unimportant. You are what you think of yourself.

Dear Mrs Jones: Thank you for your letter. I shall try to do better.

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at only one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

Listen carefully to first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That is the part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Pay no attention to what critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as everyone tells you when you lose.