Anxiety Quote by Ruth Behar

“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

“Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like…

— Elif Batuman

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of…

— Pierre Bayard

“its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out…

— Mark O'Connell

“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the…

— John Dos Passos

“No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of…

— David Shields

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those…

— Hilaire Belloc

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc; his job is merely to record who,…

— Anton Chekhov