Sherwood Anderson Quotes

When you get the ideas, that's a thrill; when you're writing the book and it's corning out well, that's a thrill; when you finish it and other people read it, that's a thrill. There are going to be reviews, of course; not everyone's going to love it. You feel sort of naked and vulnerable in a way. That's just a minor part of the process, really. If you can't take that part, you shouldn't be in the business. But there are so many joys to writing.

Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the idea is to run through with your head down, and everybody gets to take a swing. They hit you in the head, the back, the ass, and the balls.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.

As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub-agents, the accountants, the libel lawyers, the departments of literature, the professors, the theses, the books of criticism, the reviewers, the book pages- all this vast and proliferating edifice is because of this small, patronized, put-down and underpaid person.'

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it's fate are people.

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to." "Just because anyone can do something doesn't mean everyone should," Mrs. Peters said. "Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.

Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.