Lindsay Ellis Quotes

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

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 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.

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves.

Don't just crit their siticising.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

I don't have any problems with criticism.

When I make criticism, it's constructive. It's not right only to focus on the negatives.

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

I never wish for critics.

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

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 don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

There is a difference between constructive criticism and criticism that is hateful. I can criticize America, but in a way that shows that I want to improve America and its democracy.