Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
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Robert A. Heinlein
I started this dirty quote business when I noticed that I only tend to read authors when their quotes convince me of wit and style. In a world overflowing with bad literature and corrupted product-placement critics the only weapon one has is either word of...
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Martijn Benders
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 published a line has been accused by someone of wasting...
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Stephen King
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.", October 31, 1977]
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John Osborne
Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.
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Jeffrey Robinson
More Quotes By Anatole France
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
