Against Quote by Joyce Maynard

I have friends in different walks of life. So I usually take their opinion about my work and then go along with their views.

— Regina Cassandra

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

— Stephen Sondheim

Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of…

— Harry Shearer

I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets…

— Harlan Ellison

If you're a creative person, you'd better not read what people write about you, because if it's good it'll blow your head up and…

— James McBride

I learned to share work with people even when it was in its rough stages without worrying that they'd be filled with scorn and…

— Cassandra Clare

You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

— Dane DeHaan

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so…

— Joyce Carol Oates

For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works…

— Andy Grammer

Unfortunately, you're helpless when people interpret your work wrongly. There are simply people who can't or won't understand or accept what you're trying to…

— Michael Haneke

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate…

— Barbara Ehrenreich