Always Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is…

— Sherwood Anderson

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

— John Berryman

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

— Mahmoud Darwish

So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise…

— John Berryman

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person,…

— Walter Kirn

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.

— Malcolm Cowley

A good book praises itself

— German Proverb

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

— Anonymous

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or…

— Friedrich Nietzsche