On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel...

You may face opposition not only because you are doing something wrong, but because you are doing something right. Not all oppositions are meant for a better life!

Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label — to conclude that I am writing about myself. But one must...

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

My writing doesn’t improve if you think it’s great, and it doesn’t lessen if you think it sucks. Likewise, you not showing me love doesn’t mean mine for you has to be invisible. The two...

When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.

I think there’s a ton of fear in the perception of romance in part because there’s something very realistic in great romance — namely, that women have the right to demand relationships that are based...

I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect souls that seek imperfection vs. perfection, in an imperfect world where God asks...

A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the house in which he actually...

I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.

I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever...

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Everyone else believes in you. The major problem is that not all can let you know as in the way you may wish. Some will only let you know through their tests of criticism!

A critic must be knowledgeable in several fields, practices, and mediums. Brushing off art that they personally don’t understand, is not a critique.

Those who lack the guts to create critic.

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

I don’t want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Anaemia is an illness primarily affecting characters in novels.

Ich habe die Überzeugung gewonnen, dass Kinder das beste und klügste Publikum sind, das man sich als Geschichtenerzähler nur wünschen kann. Kinder sind strenge, unbestechliche Kritiker.”[As quoted on Preußler’s official website.]

The meaning you apply to what has happened to you is your decision. There will be critics that have their version, but God didn’t call them to be your audience, someone else did.

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.

The dreams you have that may meet mockeries from the lips of negative people will yield the success that will squeeze tears from their eyes later! Dare to resist every negative criticism and persist to...

Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not...

Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you’ll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

Everyone is watching you. If you don’t believe it, just pretend to fail and you’ll see many mockers. For this reason, work hard as if you are doing everyone’s business!

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.

The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck

It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed, no man likes owing anything to his contemporaries. The repeated but irrelevant points...

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a ‘not good’ critic.

I don’t want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

If God has given you a mission, you must be tough enough to handle what people say and still not be distracted while doing what you were created to do. Are you tough enough? God...

Don’t fall flat to deception; thousand criticisms can never drift your dream through one millimetre unless you give them the audacity. Be in-charge; you are unstoppable!

Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface.

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

Critics! Appalled I ventured on the name.Those cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks.

Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but...

I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me...

The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in newspapers no less virtuous, made a grimace of disgust as they picked it up with the tongs to throw it...

I don’t read the critics.