Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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!
Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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.
It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.
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.
Criticism is part of the creative man's journey, and I appreciate it.
I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.
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.