"What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism."

Criticism, Help, Trying, Years

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"What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism."

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"But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages."

Edmond About, French Novelist

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"There is no such thing as constructive criticism. There is constructive advice, constructive guidance, constructive counsel, encouragement, suggestion, and instruction. Criticism, however, is not constructive but a destructive means of faultfinding that cripples all parties involved. Don't be fooled into thinking otherwise."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Some who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no reason to complain, since I have similar opinions of their work, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Criticism, Religion, Politics, Faith

"DeadPool reminds me for some other films which are sci-fi, like Selflessness and Mr.Nobody....But the speech is awful it must be fixed!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Criticism, Truth, Happiness, Regret, Power

"Act that way and slowly but surely I will fade away. All the dawns and all the twilights will rob me, piece by piece, of myself, and before long my very life will be shaved away completely - and I would end up nothing."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Criticism, Truth, Art, Life

"Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or at least has held and not yet repudiated) that the end of days and the Second Coming will occur in her lifetime. This completes the already strong case for allowing her to pass the rest of her natural life span as a private citizen."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Criticism, Belief, Conviction, Faith, Politics

"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Criticism, Praise, Authors, Creativity

"Even the slightest criticism of others is an impediment (hindrance) to Absolute Knowledge (Kevalgnan, Absolute Enlightenment). It also hinders Atmagnan (Knowledge of the Self), also hinders Samkit (Self-realization)."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Criticism, Truth, Spiritual, Wisdom, Life

"Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Criticism, Books, Men, Quality, Values

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"What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose."

Writing, Prose, Training

"What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism."

Criticism, Help, Trying, Years

"If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day."

Writing, Day, Luck

"My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing."

Attention, Lies, Writing

"I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!"

Education, English, Importance, Literature

"Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it."

Writing, Manners, Numbers

"For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim."

Time, Thought

"Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain."

Love, Men, Butterflies, Eyes

"Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit."

Life, Love, People, Being

"Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature."

Nature,