I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded
Johnny Rich.
“Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.”
“The characters act for reasons that they cant control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, ...”
“An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what theyre creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they cant mak...”
“Publishers are businesses and I dont blame them for that. If they didnt make money by publishing books, there wouldnt be any books.”
“A good book is not the same as a successful one.”
“A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.”
“Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.”
“I dont want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.”
“What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great liter...”
“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”
“But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.”
“The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.”
“Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times.”
“There was and still is a tremendous fear that poor and working-class Americans might one day come to understand where their political interests reside. Personally, I think the elites worry too much...”
“Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systematically. Nothing here can escape us, because what reason brings forth entirely out of itself cannot...”
