Bad thing Quote by Keith Devlin

It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could…

— Christopher Hitchens

I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The Adventures of…

— Norman Lock

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to…

— Toni Morrison

“And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them…

— Stephen King

One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L.…

— William Golding

“I've read way too much on the overused/misunderstood buzzwords "Show, don't tell!" that I'm convinced all novels should now be picture books”

— Michael Kroft

“I wonder whether certain dreadful events, of the sort this picture is full of, are not so incalculably rich in the possibilities of moral…

— James Agee

“This means the literary effect is not the main concern here; the author is more concerned with plot. And that plot must be relatively…

— Stella Gibbons

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing.…

— Donna Tartt

“To these things do writers sink; and then the critics tell them that they “talk for effect”; and then the writers answer: “What the…

— G.K. Chesterton

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium…

— Thomas Jefferson