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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."
"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 Joseph Addison
"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."
"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."
"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."
"Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies."
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