You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Young people need models, not critics.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."

[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977]

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.