3 James Michener Quotes on Criticism

James Michener quotes on criticism

33. Not too many people work in a job where, waiting out there are three or four hundred people who are paid to tear apart what you've done. And often they are brighter than you are, or they know more about the subject than you do, or they wish they had written a book themselves, or done a lot better. Or they just don't like it! And you have to live with it. I have been very well treated by the critics in the long haul.

55. Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

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57. Texas is : 'trotting' journalism, history in a hurry.