except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages or…

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that…

— George R. R. Martin

“I love to read, but I'm not a reviewer. I'll leave the reviewing to someone else. Suffice it to say, if I'm reading your…

— John Inman

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

— Austin O'Malley

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

“[P]ersonally, I know I’d prefer to read an honest review by someone who has no reason to lie, than a book reviewer who has…

— Catherine Ryan Howard

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

— Flannery O'Connor

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader,…

— Karen Hesse

I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys…

— Martin Freeman

When I first played Othello, a reviewer absolutely slaughtered me.

— David Harewood

I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure…

— Michael Dirda

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

— John Banville

The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book. Often, that…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have…

— Lev Grossman