“Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.” — Stacia Kane 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
If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do — Roger Deakins 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
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing. — Harold Clurman 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
The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else! — Ayana Mathis 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
I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are… — Bobby Farrelly Copy Share Image
I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one… — Louis L'Amour 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
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
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
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
“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
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. [Referring to the… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill…[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been… — Martin Amis 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
An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
“Only a few short years ago, the average stay-at-home mom spent her relaxation time reading Jackie Collins and staring at the pool… — Pete Morin 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
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
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
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
“Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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 do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I… — Nia Vardalos 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
I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you… — Hilary Mantel 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
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
I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone,… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
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