Art Quote by Carroll O'Connor

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

— John Steinbeck

The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book. Often, that…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“come now, what's a reviewer?" I reasoned. "One who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely...”

— David Mitchell

On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder,…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

— Oscar Wilde

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 don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

— James Dickey

The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might…

— Craig Brown

An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the…

— Storm Jameson

Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.

— Ed Kowalczyk