Criticism Quote by Mo Yan

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to…

— Randall Jarrell

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of…

— C. S. Lewis

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the…

— Ernest Hemingway

The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation.…

— Edward Gibbon

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

Writers should be respected.

— Rajkumar Hirani

“we cannot escape showing who we are. What we write and how we express it gives away as much information as our dress sense,…

— Susan Feehan

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but…

— Victor Hugo

“According to Proust, one proof that we are reading a major new writer is that his writing immediately strikes us as ugly. Only minor…

— Adam Kirsch

“We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by.”

— R.A. Salvatore

“The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without…

— Oscar Wilde

“One of the most enjoyable parts of being a writer is being able to take the darker side of human nature and explore it…

— Dawn Goodwin