Criticism Quote by Julio Cortázar

“Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I found it increasingly difficult to shake the suspicion that work was all about pretending to care about pointless stuff, and that success hinged…

— Johanna Hedman

“The young man void of understanding may be depended upon to fall into the ditch of debauchery without much pushing, and”

— Robert B. Parker

“The numerous choices you have around yourself are often superficial; they don’t matter. The art lies in doing more with less. Minimal requirements, more…

— Vishal Ostwal

“He was perpetually on guard against the ways that abstract thinking (especially thinking about your own thinking) can draw you away from something more…

— James Ryerson

“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the…

— Dale Carnegie

“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem…

— Herman Melville

“To the acute observer no one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul.”

— W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

“Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were…

— Steven Pressfield