Critical Quote by Anonymous

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no…

— Anthony Burgess

Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's…

— John Fante

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing.…

— Donna Tartt

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels…

— Edward Albee

“He made writing look easy and critics hate that. They like evidence of a struggle, of creative agony, wringing the masterpiece out of one’s…

— Jessica Zafra

“Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.”

— Thomas Moore

Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a genius," to…

— Gary Giddins

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

— Salman Rushdie

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Nicholaa Spencer

Writers should provoke disagreement.

— V. S. Naipaul

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

— Ma Jian