Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of… — William Kennedy 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
I read magazines and reviews. If consensus says something is good, I'll get it and see what's going on. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good… — Bonnie Langford Copy Share Image
Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment… — Phil Cornwell Copy Share Image
It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review.… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
We were kind of never one of CBS favorites [with Threshold], even though we'd gotten really good reviews for the pilot. We… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want… — Jay Chiat Copy Share Image
I will say that over the years I've been associated with things that were well-reviewed that I wasn't particularly crazy about, and… — James LeGros Copy Share Image
There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered,… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
In the past, I’ve had my share of good reviews, but it’s always the crazy, scary, weirdo guy. I don’t even know… — Gary Oldman 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
People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by… — Joseph Butler 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 was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my… — Charles Foster Johnson Copy Share Image
To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Books are important, and so serious intellectual attention to them is important. While promplty published scholarly articles are also important, the book… — Jeffrey C. Issac Editor-in-Chief Perspectives on Politics 12 2013 Copy Share Image
Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere. — Edmar Mednis 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
As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers. — Parul Sehgal Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad,… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
It's strange to think about the scathing reviews 'Sigh No More' got and then consider that we could win best album a… — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list. — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the… — Norbert Leo Butz Copy Share Image
Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up. — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
I don't care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does... — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to… — Rowan Pelling Copy Share Image
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