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
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
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
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
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is… — Robert Benchley 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
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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 think reviewers are sexist... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't read the reviews because they're too horrible and the reviewers have not been big supporters of mine over the years,… — Rob Cohen 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 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
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
I want to look at myself the way I do on purpose, because if you aggrandize and try to look at yourself… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want… — Frederic Tuten 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
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
If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives… — Jill Soloway 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
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
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
Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else! — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Some reviewer might be out there saying, obviously Edge of Darkness didn't come off because of the script, blah blah blah, but… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
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