Bedrock Quote by Philip Kitcher

“When we know someone’s full story, we can no longer judge them. Judgment blocks our understanding.
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— J.S. Wolfe

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

— Tom Schulman

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it.…

— Sven Birkerts

“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”

— Flannery O'Connor

Judgments are like a snowball. They stick to you. As time rolls along, the snowball becomes a boulder and then an avalanche

— John Kuypers

“For better or worse, whether it is a sign of aesthetic complexity or of intellectual indecision, this novel [Frankenstein] offers equally fertile ground to…

— Richard T Nash

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

— Ernest Hemingway

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

— Louis Kronenberger

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

— Ian Mcewan

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

— Anne Enright

“One last characteristic of the memoir that is important to recognize is one which also applies to essays, and which Georg Lukacs described as…

— Judith Barrington