Attention Quote by Sam Esmail

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels…

— Edward Albee

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I never bothered about critics in the first place. And I'm not out to prove anything to anyone. Honestly, if I took every slight…

— Shruti Haasan

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of…

— Dennis Potter

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

— Thomas Moore

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or…

— Conor Oberst

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

— Octavia E. Butler

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

— Irwin Shaw

Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out…

— Maya Angelou

Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story…

— Harlan Ellison

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

— Shia LaBeouf

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

— Edna Longley