A true critic ought proverb

 A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
  Joseph Addison

 You cannot teach creativity -- how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
  Mario Vargas Llosa

 A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others
  William Faulkner

 A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others
  William Faulkner

 Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
  Thornton Wilder

 To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth

 To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth

 Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
  Rachel Carson

 Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
  Rachel Carson

 Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
  Rachel Carson

 In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its Divine origin.
  Isaac Newton

 The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
  Clive James

 As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
  Jean de la Bruyère

 I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.


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