Book Quote by Fanny Fern

Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.

— John O'Hara

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

— Charlotte Bronte

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.

— Kate Zambreno

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

— Terri Windling

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even…

— Anthony Burgess

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 one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

— Larry Winget

I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so

— Sydney Smith

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

— Terri Windling

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

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

— Edward Abbey

“Ah, but sir,' said Lascelles, 'it is precisely by passing judgments upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be…

— Susanna Clarke