Book Quote by Ann Beattie

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even…

— Anthony Burgess

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel…

— John Grisham

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

— Tibor Fischer

Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm…

— Anonymous

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans…

— Jodi Picoult

I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify…

— John Updike

All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They…

— Arundhati Roy

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

— Richard Ford

“There is more important things in life to worry about instead of leaving nasty negative reviews on books. It shows a lot about your…

— Rain Darrow

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to…

— Toni Morrison

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I…

— Tom Stoppard

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt