Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art
Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.
Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.
If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point.
Always bring money along with your complaints.
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
Doubt your critics, never your dreams;your weaknesses, never your strengths;your enemies, never your friends;and your circumstances, but never doubt yourself.Embrace your intelligence, never your igno...
Criticism is like dissecting a dead frog," Caleb said when the book was published. "They're examining all the guts and shit and organs, when the thing that really matters, whatever it was that animate...
One of the greatest challenges is not going to the mattresses with someone who criticizes your novel.
It is not my methodology to engage too much with critics for many reasons:- I honestly believe that my ego is not worthy of my having to defend it. There are far more important things in the ummah tha...
Constant indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
Critics are biased and so are readers. (Indeed a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their...
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader and would no more read a book alone if they could help it than have a baby alone.
In judging others folks will work overtime for no pay.
I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.
Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label -- to conclude that I am writing about myself. But one must never...
At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits of decorum; literature itself was a totally extraneous matter in critical articles: they were pure...
Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.
A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
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