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Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
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reading
long-book
overpraising
reviewing
praise
reading-books
exaggeration
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E.M. Forster |
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"1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They're also entitled to express them online. 2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don't like. 3. Sometimes those opinions won't be very nice. 4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) assholes. 5. However, if your solution to this "problem" is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are a bigger asshole. 6. You may also be twelve. 7. You are not responsible for anyone else's actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own. 8. So leave them alone and go about your own life."
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criticism
freedom-of-opinion
reviewers
reviewing
opinions
freedom-of-expression
freedom-of-speech
reviews
bullying
readers
censorship
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John Scalzi |
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"Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?"
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criticism
inspiration
reviewing
critique
reviews
on-writing
creative-process
writers
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Connie Willis |
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Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.
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work
reviewing
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David Allen |
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She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.
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reviewing
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Muriel Spark |