Belief Quote by David Low

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

— Jami Attenberg

I've learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It's their opinions, their perceptions - it's a very subjective thing,…

— Steven Bauer

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me

— Irwin Shaw

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

No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it…

— Joanne Harris

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities…

— David Cecil

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

— Alexander Pope

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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

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