When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
Give no time to finding fault of criticism.
Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.
It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.