Best Reviewer Quotes

40 Reviewer quotes by 40 unique authors

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I… — John Lydon
The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really… — Toni Morrison
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable. — Carroll O'Connor
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any… — Jackson Pollock
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny… — Tom Robbins
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. — John Steinbeck
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor… — Kurt Vonnegut
The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever… — Dorothy Parker
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior… — Terry McMillan
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what… — Chuck Klosterman
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a… — Karen Hesse
Any debut novel is usually a case of spitting into the wind - or, just maybe, casting your bread upon the waters. Without an established… — Paul Di Filippo
I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take.… — Jamaica Kincaid
Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers hunger for the… — Thomas Fleming

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