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As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

— Joanne Harris

If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

— David Lehman

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

— Ann Beattie

Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that…

— Evan Daugherty

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

— Mitch Albom

I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some…

— Barry Hannah

You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I never bothered about critics in the first place. And I'm not out to prove anything to anyone. Honestly, if I took every slight…

— Shruti Haasan

I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's…

— Darryl Pinckney

Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like…

— Mark Lawson

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses…

— Stephen Baldwin