You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better, and it shouldn't make you write worse, either.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.
When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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