Dana Hill Quotes

If you would judge, understand.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

I don't delve too deep into reviews.

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

I think naturally you want to judge things.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

I don't care what people say about me.

Now everyone is a critic.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

My policy is to not read any reviews.

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

It's not the quantity of your decisions; it's the quality.

The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

To think critically is always to be hostile.

I don't worry about what the critics say.

I do wish that reviews were less like book reports. There was an era when reviewers had something to say about a book: when they painted context and drew conclusions. Many reviews these days are little more than plot summary.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.