No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.
I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.
I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.