Being Quote by Walter Kirn

When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn,…

— J. Michael Straczynski

It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.

— Anonymous

A person might see that I've blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, 'If that reprobate Toews…

— Miriam Toews

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

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

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

— Richard Ford

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

— Alice Walker

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen,…

— Mark Twain

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

— Lucinda Williams

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

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

— Annie Barrows

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

— W. Somerset Maugham