The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
Writing Quotes
The page is led by Shakespeare, then William Zinsser, the author of On Writing Well, followed by Horace and Orwell. Three old sources are worth knowing: Bacon’s Meditationes Sacræ (1597) says reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man; Thoreau’s journal for 1838 says it is vain to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live; and Horace’s Ars Poetica is the source for the idea that the writer wins by mixing profit with pleasure.
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then for your friends, then for money” is credited to Virginia Woolf and flagged misattributed. The notes quote an anecdote from a Tyrol coffee-house in which someone else says something similar. Two more flagged lines are credited to Cicero and to Menander.
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation.
The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.
The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.
You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into entertainment.