Eleanor Catton Quotes

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.

Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.

I'm very sensitive to criticism, particularly when it's very, very personal.

Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.

I have a heart and am extremely sensitive to what people say about me, both in the press and otherwise.

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

Some people are too prideful to go out and reach out to people to help them in that situation because it's just such a dark time.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things.

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.

I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.