Bad Quote by W. G. Sebald

I am never much interested in the effects of what I write....I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two times out…

— H. L. Mencken

I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot of other…

— Roger Zelazny

“I often get asked the question, 'If you had to compare your writing to an author who would it be?' My answer is always…

— Ashley Tia Long

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.

— Steven Pressfield

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

“One would expect writers and artists to understand one another better than anyone else and to be more appreciative of one another’s works. That,…

— Elif Shafak

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what…

— Chuck Klosterman

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to…

— Robert Caro

Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

— Isaac Asimov

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The only difference between me and my critics is that I don't lie to the world about who I am. People are complicated and…

— Mike Cernovich