Critic Quotes

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.
I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it.
If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they'd have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown.
No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.
The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.
When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase.
When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.
A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age.
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.
At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.
I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.
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