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
So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick /… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations;… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
My constant fear as a writer as that I will fail to convey the gravity of living. I know that to some… — Mark Powell 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
“Remember, we all make our work available in a commercial transaction, the terms of which we, ourselves, dictate. If we give it… — Pete Morin Copy Share Image
That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did.… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“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
“Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced,… — Jerry Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I sometimes get tired because I can seldom read a book for pleasure. I'm like the play reviewer who happens to go… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it… — Jennifer Weiner 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 didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that's how good I was. But I wasn't on my eighth-grade… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
