Critics

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.