Artist Quote by David Shields

“All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is…

— Uma Nnenna

“It is not up to the writer to create a masterpiece. That is what readers do.”

— Bart J. Gilbertson

“A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.”

— Carl Sandburg

“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.”

— Chrystal Evans Hurst

“There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.”

— M. Kirin

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis

“All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove that they…

— Paul Gauguin

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and…

— Roald Dahl

“To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does…

— John Ruskin

“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“When one's thoughts and experience have not reached a certain point for reading a masterpiece, the masterpiece will leave only a bad flavor on…

— Lin Yutang