Blame Quote by John Berryman

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

— John Berryman

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better,…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Remember praise is more valuable than blame.

— George S. Patton

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These…

— William Gilmore Simms

“The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst is that…

— Ron Houston

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on…

— John Keats

To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of…

— Samuel Johnson

When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on…

— Hermann Hesse

“Young writers get false ideas from indiscreet praise.”

— Uncle Haskell

Blame is safer than praise

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

— Thomas Fuller