“Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.” IfsWritingMindSelfUsedTurnsEvilChanceStupidBeatsCriticizeStampsIndulgeInadequateIndulge InEpithet Author:Gail Carson Levine
“It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.” WritingBookPlayHateEasierCriticize Book:Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker Source: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker