Steve Earle Quotes

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

The constructive criticism that I take very seriously is from people I know and respect, and they don't have to be musicians. But I do have to know where they're coming from.

You have to accept the critical reviews if they treat you with respect. Actually, it's one person's opinion. So, it's a concern but not an overriding one, and I don't stay up nights worrying about reviews. But there are certain people I respect who I hope will like a book.

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.

As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

I don't read reviews, but I do get feedback from my peers and people I know, like other actors and directors and producers.

I hope that people who might speak out respectfully and out of concern would not get mobbed or bullied for their differing views.

It's fun to have someone to talk to and get input from when you write. I usually get stuck when I'm just in my room writing by myself.

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.

It becomes obvious when people are sincere in their criticism and when they're not. I've learned over time that people will always have something to say.

My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.

Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.

At the beginning, I thought, 'Oh, I can't criticize a singer who's doing a role that I adored... even a role I didn't do.' And then I thought, 'The heck with that! Thirty years of experience... ask the girl who did it!' And I feel that if they're not willing to take what I have to say, that's fine! But I'm going to say it.

People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Generally, I respect critics; they have their job to do.

In the past, I've been lucky enough to receive some high praise, but when the experts have a go, I'm usually not particularly interested in what they have got to say.

Critics matter to me.

When we worked on 'Girls,' we've had some really meaningful dialogue with our fans and with critics and really learned a lot of things. Like, on the question of diversity, we heard people, and we responded, which is very different from, like, 'Hey fatty, what are you doing on TV?' And that's what we're trying to avoid.

Never take your critics lightly. You must always try to win them over by your hard work. Don't brush them off.