Bigs Quote by Kevin Sessums

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of…

— John Newton

“Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.”

— Thomas Moore

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

— William Golding

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

— Alexander Pope

“Don't listen to critics. Their job is to critique. You're a writer. Your job is to write.”

— Ksenia Anske

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad…

— Gregg Easterbrook

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

— Octavia E. Butler

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn…

— Zane Grey

“I don’t generally publicly respond to reviews, no matter how wrong-headed or perspicacious I think them. Nine times out of ten, writers’ responses to…

— China Miéville

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.

— John Edgar Wideman

“Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.”

— Suzy Kassem