Critics Quote by Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself,…

— Ralph Ellison

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

— Terry McMillan

If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it.

— Jeremy Larner

I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the…

— Isabel Allende

I put my soul into every book I write.

— Wilbur Smith

“How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories that take…

— Italo Calvino

It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than some writer.…

— Jennifer Lopez

“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

— Lou Reed

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi