Character Quote by Edward Abbey

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

“The best a writer can hope for is hatred by the masses, revulsion among one's peers.”

— Mike Philbin

Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances…

— Paul Di Filippo

“We are often our own harshest critics”

— Megan Hart

The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as…

— Edward Albee

“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

“Don't listen to critics. Their job is to critique. You're a writer. Your job is to write.”

— Ksenia Anske

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

— Samuel Johnson

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become…

— Theodora Goss

The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own…

— Edward Abbey

“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to be natural,…

— Charlotte Brontë