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.
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Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
My toughest criticism usually comes from myself. As my editor can attest to, I'm never done tweaking a book until the production department has to rip it from my hands!
Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.
Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.