Christopher Moore Quotes

When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.

As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.

When you start out as a TV writer, you get a lot of pressure from outside forces to fit into what they think people want.

I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.

I don't read the reviews because it somewhere affects my work. If some critic doesn't like a movie, I can't keep his criticisms in mind the next time I am making a film. Even if someone writes a great review about my film, I don't want to be affected by it.

Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you ought to add, or cut, before you've even finished telling your story. One loses heart; one loses energy and interest. Or at least I do.

Everybody's so scared to be honest with one another. If you didn't like the way I handled myself in practice, one of the players, come up to me. Somebody say something - anybody. I'm not gonna take it as offense; it's not personal.

Criticism is part of football, but we have to work.

Critics and criticism are part of the game and I've not been affected by it.

The problem is that right from the beginning, there was this whole pressure that I've had to make it big. I don't know if it's my fault or if someone else created this atmosphere around me, but it's been there.

It's fun to have someone to talk to and get input from when you write. I usually get stuck when I'm just in my room writing by myself.

When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with.

A big thing to me was to be able to be in a situation where I could speak my mind freely especially when it came to my character. Get the actual right feedback and not have too many chefs in the kitchen and allow me to be me.

The larger the band gets, the more people from the label get involved.

With independent music, I can do what I feel satisfied with, and not feel the pressure of what others expect me to deliver.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

It's why I left TV. I couldn't handle everybody telling me what I should have done after they watched me on TV. I said, "You're not even watching what I think I'm doing, so I'm out."

If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.