#criticism

I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis, I have found the attempt worth making. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#literature #politics #literary-criticism

We have so long been subject to external criticism that we don’t know how to react to internal criticism, because whereas the most enduring, positive and sensible response to the former is a united front – you shall not divide us, here we stand – responding to the latter is an entirely different ballgame. This is my fear: that as a community, we don’t know how to critique ourselves, and that this is dong us damage. Criticism, and specifically the criticism of both literary publications and the mainstream press, has so long been the weapon of the enemy that our first response on seeing it wielded internally is to call it the work of traitors. We have found strength in the creation of our own conventions and the hallowing of our own legends, flourishing to such an extent that, even if we are not yet accepted into the mainstream literary establishment, we are nonetheless part of the cultural mainstream. We are written about inaccurately, yet we are written about; and if there ever was a time when the whole genre seemed a precarious, faddish endeavour, then that time is surely past. Blog post: Criticism in SFF and YA ↗

— Foz Meadows

#sff #ya #literary-criticism

You don’t create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants. ↗

— Julie Ann Dawson

#writer-feedback #writing-craft #writing-craft

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#leadership #recognition #leadership

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism. ↗

— David Walliams

#because #criticism #get #i #much

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. ↗

— Saul Williams

#aspire #because #black #criticism #current

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#brave #criticism #drive #fool #get

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#any #artist #because #criticism #critics

The most destructive criticism is indifference. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#destructive #indifference #most

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#consider #criticism #expect #friends #them