Five Great Quotations about Book Critics

“Thousands of people don’t like what I do. Fortunately, millions do.” – James Patterson (responding to a critic who called his writing “subliterate”)

“Children read books, not reviews. They don’t give a hoot about critics.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer

“I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged…I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.” – Erica Jong

“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.” – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Remarks are not literature.” – Gertrude Stein

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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.

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