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"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."
"There is no such thing as constructive criticism. There is constructive advice, constructive guidance, constructive counsel, encouragement, suggestion, and instruction. Criticism, however, is not constructive but a destructive means of faultfinding that cripples all parties involved. Don't be fooled into thinking otherwise."
"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."
"Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised."
"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."
Explore more quotes by Heinrich Heine
"In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason."
"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."
"Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction."
"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary."
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