Editing Critic (section)

== Responses to critics ==

People whose work is the subject of criticism have a full range of responses to it. For example, they may be appreciative, offended, distressed, encouraged, amused or nonplussed.
{{Quotebox|quote=We do not object to criticism; and we do not expect that the critic will read the book before writing a notice of it. We do not even expect the reviewer of the book will say that he has not read it. No we have no anticipations of anything unusual in this age of criticism.|source=[[Satire|Satirical]] comment about potential criticism by [[Mark Twain]] and [[Charles Dudley Warner]] in their Preface to the American Edition of their co-authored novel ''[[The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today]]''.<ref name="SLC&CDW">{{cite book|last1=Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner|title=The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today|date=1903|publisher=Chatto & Windus|page=ix|chapter=Preface to the American edition}}</ref>
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