Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface? — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else! — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing. — Harold Clurman 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
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
[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
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
If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the… — Romola Garai 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
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
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
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
If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject… — Michael Berryman Copy Share Image
“Then I realized that I was falling victim to one of the fallacies of the bad reviewer (whose habits we already discussed… — Kevin Guilfoile 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
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
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
In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving… — Jim Thompson 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
It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes… — Wilfrid Sheed 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
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
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
I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong. — Antony Beevor 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
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