Books Quote by Roberto Bolano

“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may…

— Roberto Bolaño

“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

“Don't listen to critics. Their job is to critique. You're a writer. Your job is to write.”

— Ksenia Anske

“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas…

— Toni Morrison

“A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest.…

— Anonymous

“The inability to accept criticism is the short, well-traveled path to failure and disappointment.”

— Daniel Blackaby

“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities…

— David Cecil

“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.”

— John Steinbeck

“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

“The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.”

— Jean de La Bruyère

“The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to…

— C.S. Lewis