Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Criticism is part of the creative man's journey, and I appreciate it.
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.
I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others.
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.
I don't take criticism lying down.
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
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