Books Quote by Mitch Albom

Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word 'sentimental' from your minds.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

— Irwin Shaw

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities…

— David Cecil

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

— Paulo Coelho

We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the…

— Samuel Johnson

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply

— Samuel Johnson

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might…

— Amish Tripathi

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but…

— Fiona Apple

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

— Jonah Goldberg

Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm…

— Anonymous

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I…

— Tom Stoppard