About Quote by Craig Brown

The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique…

— Michael Hersch

“There is more important things in life to worry about instead of leaving nasty negative reviews on books. It shows a lot about your…

— Rain Darrow

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

— Alexander Pope

Whatever I am, I'm not as bad as the person that read the novel before watching the film. I'll enjoy whatever they [producers] are…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all,…

— Joyce Maynard

“I think that there have been displays of an impoverished reading of the book. I get the distinct feeling at times that certain critics…

— Joshua Ferris

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

— Edward Abbey

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works…

— Karl Kraus

“There was a period when I lived on book reviews, when I had basked and drawn sustenance from what I deemed the light of…

— Frederick Exley

A writer writes a book. People read it. You don't know what they're reading, really. You read a review and think, "That is so…

— James Salter