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
I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked from them. A 15-year-old can write… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a… — John Grisham 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
The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what… — Ang Lee 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
Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface? — Delmore Schwartz 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
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 think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very… — Jamaica Kincaid 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
Richard Price got a million dollar advance on one fake film book based on a paragraph outline and is able to seduce… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it… — Agnes Repplier 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
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
“[P]ersonally, I know I’d prefer to read an honest review by someone who has no reason to lie, than a book reviewer… — Catherine Ryan Howard Copy Share Image
I naively thought I was making a low-budget movie. But, when the film came out, the Daily Variety reviewer at that time… — Stephanie Rothman 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
“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
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
“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
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
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 try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
