A Quote by Emily Giffin

I have increasingly steeled myself to criticism, but it still can sting, especially when you feel that it is unfair - or that they are judging my book by its cover or by preconceived notions.

Emily Giffin

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Book Cover Criticism Feel Increasingly Judging Myself Notions Preconceived Preconceived Notions Still Sting Unfair

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Emily Giffin
American - Author
Born: March 20, 1972

I had a lot of wrong preconceived notions about church-y folks, and I'm bad at judging the messenger, not the message.

Walker Hayes

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

Dascha Polanco

When I was first trying to explain to my parents that I was really a girl, my father didn't know what to do. He had these preconceived notions about what his family was going to be like, and when I didn't fit into those notions, he just ignored what I was trying to tell them before he really came around.

Nicole Maines

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Stephen King

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Mary Browne

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Mandy Moore

I have no preconceived notions of what SBA programs work or not.

Sam Graves

I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.

Alton Brown

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

Daniel Clowes

I think the whole response to our art being so positive is that it rings true and it feels a unique thing and I feel that was the thing that we strive for in the beginning was to not conform to any preconceived notions of what we should be doing.

Finneas

To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.

Jasper Fforde

Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.

Scott Kahn

I've never really had a sense that I am just Mrs. Sting. Indeed, I am Mrs. Sting and very proud and very happy that I am still Mrs. Sting, as opposed to Mrs. ex-Sting. But I'm a very busy person, so I've always done things and got on with my life.

Trudie Styler

I think when kids are younger, they don't have these preconceived notions of what a transsexual person is.

Fallon Fox

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

Madeleine L'Engle

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