Attention Quote by Ezra Pound

“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound”

— Ezra Pound

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

— Zane Grey

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

— Harold Rosenberg

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

— Samuel Johnson

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

— Charlotte Bronte

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

— Martial

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

— Vera Caspary

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

— Julien Green

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius

My biggest critics have never read me.

— Jackie Collins