Believe Quote by Anonymous

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

— Javier Zanetti

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

— Octavia E. Butler

Do you really believe in what you said or wrote – in the thing that’s bringing criticism? And if I do believe it, I…

— Susan Cain

Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

— Samuel P. Huntington

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

— Tullian Tchividjian

“No one criticizes someone he believes beneath him. Therefore, change your outlook about your critics. They really believe that you matter.”

— Assegid Habtewold

When you are writing the kind of criticism you hope you're writing, everything depends on keeping your calm or your cool. You're trying to…

— Darryl Pinckney

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

— Eden Robinson

There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing…

— Elmore Leonard

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

— William Golding

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have…

— Madeleine L'Engle

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself,…

— Ralph Ellison