"Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all."
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"I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it."
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"Imitation is criticism."
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"The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool."
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"Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective."
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"If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny."
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"We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference."
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"How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That's all."
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"Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity.""
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"I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life."
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"You take the constructive criticism, because without the fans you would have no show."
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"People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success."
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"The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism"
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"On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable."
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"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."
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"David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed."
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"Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander."
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"We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way."
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"Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people."
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"A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned."
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