Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
— Christopher Hampton  ·  Criticism

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writer ['raɪtɚ] 词频2
n. 作家;作者;撰写人;写字…的人;
💡 writ=write写+er人 →作家
近义：literatus, author, redactor, columnist, contributor, editor
working [['wə:kiŋ]] 词频2
n. 工作, 运转, 劳动\\na. 工作的, 劳动的, 经营的, 抽搐的, 运转的
近义：march, operation, performance, running, behavior, actuating
lamppost [['læmppəust]]
n. 街灯柱
近义：streetlamp, streetlight
critics
n. 评论家；批评者；吹毛求疵的人（critic的复数）
近义：momi, momuses, faultfinders
asking
n. 请求
thinks
v. 想( think的第三人称单数 ); 思索; 以为; 认为

🏷 更多「Criticism」名言

"Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins."
— Native American Proverb
"One cannot review a bad book without showing off."
— W. H. Auden
"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!"
— Jean Sibelius
"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."
— Kurt Vonnegut
"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."
— W. Somerset Maugham
"No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating."
— Harold Rosenberg
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
— H. L. Mencken
"I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, 'I wanna grow up and be a critic.'"
— Richard Pryor
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
— Elbert Hubbard
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