Writing Quote by Andy Merton Download Open image ““A good critic knows that he or she can be wrong, as does a good writer.”” — Andy Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.” — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
“He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts and judgements may be, he is always wrong.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When I hear a critic speaking of an author’s sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I'm not as good a writer as some, but I'm not bad as most either.” — Jonathan Heatt Copy Share Image
“You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“There are no bad writers only people with different taste and opinions” — Vianka Van Bokkem Copy Share Image
“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Don't listen to critics. Their job is to critique. You're a writer. Your job is to write.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
“but remember that every critic loves to judge that which he wishes he had the nerve to do himself. I” — Christopher Greenwood Copy Share Image
“he who has the good to his hand and chooses the bad, that the good he complains of may not come to him.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch 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
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
