Critics are only concerned with what affects them. And feeling empathy is a gift not many possess.

All great people had critics, but they still believe in beauty of their dreams.

[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.