“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.” – C. N. Bovee
“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.” – Christopher Hampton
“What a blessed thing it is that nature, when she invented, manufactured and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.” – L. Sprague de Camp
“Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.” – Harlan Ellison
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 300 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day… writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.