Books Quote by Alistair MacLeod Download Open image “If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.” — Alistair MacLeod ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Creating Criticize Literature Nothing People Would
all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public. — Paul Emsley Copy Share Image
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. — Jacqueline Leo Copy Share Image
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's not the… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities… — David Cecil Copy Share Image
“And I am overwhelmed now by the awfulness of over-simplification. For now I realize that not only have I been guilty of it through… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Some men,” she would add in ominous seriousness, “are nice as pie in public but within their own homes they are mean and miserly… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it slanted against her window with a pinging sound, which meant it was close to hail, and then it was visible as tiny… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
