Attention Quote by Curtis Sittenfeld

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

— Carroll O'Connor

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— David Mitchell

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

— Austin O'Malley

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

— John Steinbeck

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

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

— Tibor Fischer

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

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

I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they…

— Clive Barker

“Book reviewer: Very often a writer who has never been published taking out their frustrations on a writer who has.”

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez