Bathroom Quote by William Zinsser

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

— Octavia E. Butler

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other,…

— Ezra Pound

When you are writing the kind of criticism you hope you're writing, everything depends on keeping your calm or your cool. You're trying to…

— Darryl Pinckney

Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a genius," to…

— Gary Giddins

I've come to realize that you're going to get criticized no matter what. Somebody will always hate what you write, especially if you write…

— Dave Barry

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

— Thomas Moore

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works…

— Karl Kraus

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

— Ksenia Anske

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply

— Samuel Johnson

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

— Tibor Fischer

When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing…

— Chuck Klosterman