Critic Quote by Oscar Wilde

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to…

— Oscar Wilde

The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that.

— Micah Perks

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He…

— E. M. Forster

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

— Tibor Fischer

“He'd stolen his philosophy of editing from the old New Critics—it's just about the book. Not the author, not the market, not the reader...one…

— Tiffany Reisz

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls…

— Tristram Stuart

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

— Anonymous

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the…

— Isabel Allende

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it…

— James Russell Lowell