I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career. — Kate Smith 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
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 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
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
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus. — Austin O'Malley 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
Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just… — Peter Morville 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
When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for… — William H. Gass 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 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
“[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'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
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 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
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
Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed… — Anonymous 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
Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or… — kurt Vonnegut 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
“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
Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they… — Mark Lawson 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
“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 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
“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 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
I sometimes think many reviewers write the reviews of my films even before they see them. — Ram Gopal Varma Copy Share Image
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