Books Quote by Adam Haslett

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

— Ernest Hemingway

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

— Ernest Hemingway

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

— Djuna Barnes

My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

— Joshua Mohr

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

— Jami Attenberg

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

— Horace

Writers will be judged by what they write.

— Raymond Carver

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly expressed views.…

— Justin Cartwright

I feel as long as people enjoy what they read and learn something more, I have done my job as a writer.

— Ravi Subramanian