Books Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

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

“Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all I want…

— Truman Capote

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate…

— Jean Cocteau

I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to…

— Ben Brantley

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad…

— Jo Brand

Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me…

— John Steinbeck

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

— Emile M. Cioran

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other,…

— Ezra Pound

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

— Irwin Shaw

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

— Steve Martin

“Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader into alertness.”

— Ezra Pound

I have increasingly steeled myself to criticism, but it still can sting, especially when you feel that it is unfair - or that they…

— Emily Giffin