A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“every time a reader leaves a book review, a crippled monkey gets a free banana. I” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“When your book review is centered on your sworn duty as spelling police and grammar cop, what makes you anything more than… — Guy R Vestal Copy Share Image
The gender inequality in book reviewing isn't getting better. Male authors get the majority of review coverage, and male reviewers do most… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book,… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.” — Susan Larson Copy Share Image
I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years w/out feeling anything new. Then, when a door… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Taking inspiration from her own experiences as a wife, mother, principal and teacher, Ellick creates a realistic and thought-provoking modern scenario for… — Bainbridge Island Review Copy Share Image
there are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
For a wide-ranging look at literary matters, the 'Book Review Podcast' from the 'New York Times' is still one of the best.… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
When Paul Beatty's 'The Sellout' was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release. It got a rave review… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is,… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“Nearly every writer writes a book with a great amount of attention and intention and hopes and dreams. And it's important to… — Madeline Sharples Copy Share Image
My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
I think my style changes somewhat. The themes I am interested in exploring are mostly the same, but I tackle them differently.… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Remind your humans of the traditional value of the newspaper by helping them to read every time they sit down with one.… — Michael Ray Taylor Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“I try not to hate anybody. "Hate is a four-letter word," like the bumper sticker says. But I hate book reviewers. Book… — Steve Hely Copy Share Image
“is to certify that someone so far unidentified wrote deliberate errors into the corrected final proofs of this book after they left… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
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“It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book On God ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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“I had a chance to read Monte Christo in prison once, too, but not to the end. I observed that while Dumas… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Paints a vivid picture of Jesus’ groundbreaking lessons . . . An impressively concise portrayal of Jesus as a moral philosopher [and]… — Oscar R. Nordstrom Copy Share Image
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