“Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.” — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface. — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all… — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much. — Bobby Farrelly Copy Share Image
Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive. — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone,… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When I began to read as an adult, I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think testing films are a great tool. And I think showing them to people that you value their opinion is important,… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered,… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“But 'I worked hard on this' doesn’t exempt you from criticism. Those harsh reviews aren’t about anyone being out to get me.… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
“1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I am never much interested in the effects of what I write…I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
“I was going to suggest some hard-won guidelines for responsible reviewing. For instance: First, as in Hippocrates, do no harm. Second, never… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“A good critic is trying to tell you what she has learned about herself from the reading of a particular piece of… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
A writer writes a book. People read it. You don't know what they're reading, really. You read a review and think, "That… — James Salter Copy Share Image
What can you think when one review says "this album is brilliant, and all the songs flow into the utmost brilliant song… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing. — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
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