Admirer Quote by Angus Wilson

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner

“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

“A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.”

— Aditi Dufare

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect…

— Goldwin Smith

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then…

— Thomas Love Peacock

“A writer must always be the no.1 fan of their book,”

— Aditi Dufare

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti

“That distinctive singular stamp of himself is one of the main reasons readers come to love an author. The way you can just tell,…

— David Foster Wallace

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

— D. H. Lawrence