Book Quote by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

— Tibor Fischer

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

— Neel Mukherjee

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans…

— Jodi Picoult

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had…

— Stephen Potter

You have to accept the critical reviews if they treat you with respect. Actually, it's one person's opinion. So, it's a concern but not…

— Robert Cormier

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

Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it…

— Dave Eggers

I am never much interested in the effects of what I write....I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two times out…

— H. L. Mencken

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would…

— Ang Lee

It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be judged because…

— Dean Wareham

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

— Jim Harrison