Reviewer Quotes

40 quotes by 40 authors

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them. — John Banville
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that… — William S. Burroughs
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror. — Flannery O'Connor
I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good… — Anton Chekhov
I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and… — Ted Allen
Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And… — Jessica Walter
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book. — Edward Abbey
I donâ€™t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well. — James Dickey
The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah… — S. J. Perelman
Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it.… — Art Buchwald
I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that's how good I was. But I wasn't on my eighth-grade team, because some… — Kanye West
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two… — Kevin Myers
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus. — Austin O'Malley
If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's… — Penn Jillette
Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show… — Peter Morville
I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who… — Jodi Picoult
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible… — John Green
What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do. — Patrice Leconte
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the… — Robert Benchley
Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to… — Alfred North Whitehead

Who Wrote These Reviewer Quotes

40 authors contributed a total of 40 Reviewer Quotes, led by these top contributors: