Quote by David Mitchell

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I love to read, but I'm not a reviewer. I'll leave the reviewing to someone else. Suffice it to say, if I'm reading your…

— John Inman

“If I never received a bad review then I wouldn't be a real writer, but I much prefer the good ones”

— Charity Parkerson

“[P]ersonally, I know I’d prefer to read an honest review by someone who has no reason to lie, than a book reviewer who has…

— Catherine Ryan Howard

“Reviews? Didn’t read ’em.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

“I might also say, regarding reviews and reviewers, that I have yet to read a review of any of my own books which I…

— Edward Abbey

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

— James Dickey

A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going…

— Kevin Bacon

“A bad review is a good review. The worst review they can give you is no review at all, and that’s the one they…

— Todd Snider

You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I don’t generally publicly respond to reviews, no matter how wrong-headed or perspicacious I think them. Nine times out of ten, writers’ responses to…

— China Miéville