As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
I like critics with strong opinions.
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.
I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
I don't read the critics.
Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.
But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.