Forgotten Quote by Erica Jong

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

— Irwin Shaw

Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget…

— Art Buchwald

I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.

— Debra Hamel

I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews.

— John Updike

I have a lot of critics; we all know that.

— Hope Solo

You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.

— Barbra Streisand

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

— Steve Martin

I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some…

— Barry Hannah

I'm usually pretty good at remembering the melodies that I wrote.

— Ramin Djawadi

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they…

— Aaron Sorkin

I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now.

— Tricia Helfer

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates