Article Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr

“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a part of…

— Hannah Strom-Martin

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone…

— Buzz Osborne

Of course YA authors have a responsibility to their audience.

— Rebecca Serle

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

— Daniel Alarcon

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

— Maxim Gorky

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a better source…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

“Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.”

— Thomas Moore

I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can…

— Michael Tomasky

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

— John Green

I've learned over the years that big-name writers might be treated fairly by the media conglomerates that dominate publishing today. But the average author…

— Thomas Hauser

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

— William P. Young