The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Quote by William Faulkner

Topics: Criticism Quotes, Writers Quotes, Writing Quotes

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or...

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or...

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel...

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but...

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but...

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon...

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon...

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that...

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on...

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they...

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they...

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that...

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that...

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since...

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since...

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call...

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call...

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better...

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better...

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop...

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop...

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that...

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that...