Who said “The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers…”?

“Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.”

“Criticism should be a casual conversation.”

“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”

“A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.”

“A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure — critics are ready-made.”

“I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.”

“My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.”

“... maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly all the time, is having to accept it.”

“If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'' is worth any number of old ladies.”

“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”

“The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.”