Conclusion Quote by Donna Tartt

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your…

— Bret Easton Ellis

When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that…

— Kate DiCamillo

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

— Tucker Max

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

— Thorstein Veblen

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the…

— Virginia Woolf

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

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

— Steven Berkoff

Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature…

— Leland Ryken

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula…

— Northrop Frye

A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays close attention…

— Michelle Dean

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche