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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it’s not enough for them to hate me, they can’t stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.