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Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.
Sep 26, 2025
Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.
There's people that like you and there's people that don't like you. I love it because I love the negative criticism because I always feel I have something to prove.
Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.
Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.
Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.
The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.
I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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