Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
It never stops me from saying what I want to say about Ethiopia, the fact that a tour company is paid for… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
“It is certainly the case that if you are often reviewed, you will find yourself repeatedly blamed and praised for saying what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
I think reviewers are sexist... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations;… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or… — kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is… — James Black Copy Share Image
I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it.… — Stephen Baldwin Copy Share Image
Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Reviewers, critics, guest editors... Such people may have an eye for literary conventions and contrivances, allusions and innovations on the art. But… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman.… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that's how good I was. But I wasn't on my eighth-grade… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't read the reviews because they're too horrible and the reviewers have not been big supporters of mine over the years,… — Rob Cohen Copy Share Image
You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image