{"quotes":[{"text":"As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["bondage","book","book-critic","critic","wicked-looking"],"id":1554,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are still not content, do more of it! Keep doing it until you become a master. Then look around, and you will see fewer critics and many compliments!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["achieve","again","around","compliments","congratulations","content","critic","criticise","criticize","critics","do-it","easy","endurance","endure","few","fewer","food-for-thought","hibernate","israelmore-ayivor","little","look","look-around","master","more","much","opponents","oppose","opposition","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","persistent","praise","quiet","shut-down","shut-up","silence","silent","small","success","try","try-again","watch-and-pray","win","winner"],"id":24287,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["critic","shakespeare"],"id":28579,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"},{"text":"If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","critic","critical","criticism","criticism","criticisms","critics","critics","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","paper","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":43267,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["build","build-your-dream","build-your-empire","build-your-future","critic","criticism","criticism","critics","envy","greatness","haters","haters","ignore-critics","ignore-pettiness","jelous","jelousy","matshona-dhliwayo","motivation","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-women","thick-skin"],"id":46726,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["critic","criticism","critique","funny","witty"],"id":60023,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.","author":"E.B. White","tags":["critic","play"],"id":76117,"author_id":"E.B.+White"},{"text":"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.","author":"Joan Didion","tags":["critic","criticism","film","movie","reviewers"],"id":76632,"author_id":"Joan+Didion"},{"text":"Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. 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