Books Quote by Isabel Allende

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

— John Grisham

In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do…

— Aravind Adiga

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

— Neil Drumming

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of…

— Ken Liu

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

— Irwin Shaw

I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most…

— Neil Gaiman

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might…

— Amish Tripathi

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your audience as…

— Anthony Burgess

The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction I think…

— Pankaj Mishra

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone…

— Buzz Osborne

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

— Robert Harris