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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, "Oh, I don't like it." One might say, "it's the best muffin ever made." One might say "it's an awful muffin." It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled "wrong.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief becomes despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

It takes sweat to work on things, but it only takes saliva to criticize things.

The person who is always criticizing others is usually the one who deserves criticism the most.

The person who offends writes as if it was written on sand, and the person who is offended reads it as if it were written on marble.

The only real way someone can stop criticism is to die.

They couldn't find any reason to criticize the roses, so they complained that they were red!