Critic Metaphors, Analogies and Similes
I take no more notice of the wind that comes out the the mouths of critics than of the wind expelled from their backsides.
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients, then having somebody sit on it.
Critics flutter about the world like bats which flap their wings in the twilight, whose dark mass appears to you in every direction, animals disquieted by their fate, their heavy bodies preventing them from rising. Throw them a handkerchief full of sand, they will stupidly make a rush at it.
A critic is one who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Reviewers who fall into a paroxysm of rage over a novel are preposterous. They're like a person who puts on full armour to attack a hot fudge sundae or banana split.
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging vainly as the train goes by.
Having a critic praise you is like having a hangman say you have a pretty neck.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Asking a working writer what he feels about a critic is like asking a lamppost what he feels about dogs.
This new play is likely to have the lifespan of a mayfly.
Writing criticism is to fiction or poetry as hugging the shoreline is to sailing the open sea.
A drama critic is someone who leaves no turn unstoned.
( No statue has never been set up in honour of a critic. )
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