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• 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… — 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… — Anton Chekhov
• I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to… — Ted Allen
• Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in… — Jessica Walter
• It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book. — Edward Abbey
• I don’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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Kevin Myers

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