critic

mirror

is to the writer what the dog is to the lamp-post.

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

is, like the newspaper, never to be believed.

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. (John James Osborne)

is woefully underpaid as a child-minder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a child-minder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.