“It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.” MenHeartHardSpeakNiceSubjectsReaderEarsPraiseSay AnythingEgotismGrate Book:Essays and Selected Verse: With an Introd Source: Essays and Selected Verse: With an Introd
“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.” WorldSelfUseLightTurnsLanguageNaturalPleasureGriefAttentionColorReaderPerceptionEatingSummerUniquePraiseShameInvestmentWitDawnCompassionateNatural WorldEnergeticSkillfulDestroyersOmnipotenceWhimsyJunctureApricots Author:Pattiann Rogers
“A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.” FirstsBookDoneReaderPraiseGratefulVicesGuiltyMannersExpensesBe GratefulVice VersaBad Manners Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.” ShouldBookCareReaderCriticismPraiseCooksGuests Author:John Harington
“My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all true." At the same time, I could have written much more about us, but I didn't want to go any further. I did cut things out. There are certain things that I wrote about her that are so gushing with praise and admiration that when I looked at those passages I realised they would be ridiculous to anybody else.” WantFirstsWellsWould BeCertainLinesCuttingWifeWrittenReaderPraiseMy WifeRidiculousAdmirationPassagesDefenceRealisedOh Well Author:Paul Auster
“'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.” PeopleLifeInspirationalBookFunnyReadingEducationReaderPraiseClassicSarcasticReading BooksBook ReadingReading HabitsBook ReadersEquatorInspirational ReadingReading InspirationalWit And Wisdom Author:Mark Twain