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“The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to…

— C.S. Lewis

“Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before.”

— Zadie Smith

“One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

“Critics were rigid and hidebound, never willing to give due credit for anything that didn’t fit in with their predetermined parameters of what fiction…

— Therese Anne Fowler

“Critics write words but they don't write the future.”

— Jon Gordon

“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather…

— Milan Kundera

“I might also say, regarding reviews and reviewers, that I have yet to read a review of any of my own books which I…

— Edward Abbey

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise…

— David Guterson

“all that really matters to me is that there are critics.”

— Peter Davis

“She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good.”

— Anthony Trollope

“And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously…

— Azar Nafisi

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all,…

— Joyce Maynard