Anger Quote by Samuel Johnson

We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the…

— Samuel Johnson

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

— Mitch Albom

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

— Alexander Pope

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

— Octavia E. Butler

“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

“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

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

— Samuel Johnson

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost…

— Bert Sugar

“We have so long been subject to external criticism that we don’t know how to react to internal criticism, because whereas the most enduring,…

— Foz Meadows

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of…

— Anonymous