Books Quote by Jeffrey Robinson Download Open image “Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.” — Jeffrey Robinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Critics Dog Lamps
Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs — John Osborne Copy Share Image
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs." [ Time Magazine , October 31, 1977]” — John Osborne Copy Share Image
Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.” — John Osborne Copy Share Image
Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost… — Bert Sugar Copy Share Image
Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. — John Osborne Copy Share Image
“Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.” — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Write non-fiction like fiction, so the reader is constantly turning the page to find out what happens next, and write fiction like non-fiction, so… — Jeffrey Robinson Copy Share Image
“And I always thought we were lucky to have Saudi Arabia’s oil might in his hands. He was never one to upset the applecart.”… — Jeffrey Robinson Copy Share Image
“When people ask me how I write, I always answer, “Out loud.” It’s the single most important piece of advice I give young writers.… — Jeffrey Robinson Copy Share Image
“Life depends on the water cycle, so what’s endangered here is life itself. And we’re not talking about something that can’t be avoided because… — Jeffrey Robinson Copy Share Image
“When you know how to find a story – when you know what a story looks like and where they hide – you see them everywhere.” — Jeffrey Robinson Copy Share Image
There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans. — Jeffrey Robinson Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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