John Steinbeck Quotes About Criticism
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Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.
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Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.
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Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
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In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
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