If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews. — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
I mean when the book first came out it was not a bestseller, but it got good reviews and at that point… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
“There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves. — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The NCI sent (,)...to review our funding(,)...people connected with the nuclear establishment...It was a pretty much foregone conclusion, that if you send… — Rosalie Bertell Copy Share Image
I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
“British / Pakistani ISIS suspect, Zakaria Saqib Mahmood, is arrested in Bangladesh on suspicion of recruiting jihadists to fight in Syria •… — Zakaria Zaqib Mahmood Copy Share Image
It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a… — John Podhoretz 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
All our old record reviews were like, 'Oh, these skate punk kids, blah, blah, blah.' And I don't skate, and we're not… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's always good to get good reviews. I read my reviews. There are a lot of writers who don't read their reviews… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
I try not to read reviews because I know how sensitive I am and how debilitating it is and how it follows… — Thao Nguyen Copy Share Image
I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
