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
“Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.” — Stacia Kane 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 believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Only a few short years ago, the average stay-at-home mom spent her relaxation time reading Jackie Collins and staring at the pool… — Pete Morin 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
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
We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are… — Bobby Farrelly 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
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
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
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
I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
