Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable…

“Criticism can be edited to get a virtual guide book to better you.”

— Akshmala sharma

Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then…

— David Cross

“Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

— Robert Ben Garant

When people criticize our work, whether that work is a spreadsheet, a coffee, or our children, we take it very personally as if they…

— David Kim

At aged eleven, you're learning taking criticism every day and making it a positive thing - otherwise you will never make it in ballet.

— Francesca Hayward

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo…

— Rachel Johnson

Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.

— Monica Hesse

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're…

— Edward Hirsch

I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a…

— Jennifer Egan

In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do…

— Aravind Adiga

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through…

— James Franco

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the…

— Jarvis Cocker

Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a…

— Jon Spaihts

I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

— Richard King