Writing Quote by Helen Vendler

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of…

— Dennis Potter

“The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to…

— C.S. Lewis

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

— Edward Abbey

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my…

— Jean M. Auel

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

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

— Alexander Pope

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

— Irwin Shaw

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works…

— Karl Kraus

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to…

— Oscar Wilde

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

— Jonah Goldberg