Books Quote by Florence King

Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It…

— Lorin Stein

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year,…

— Cyril Connolly

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

— Steven Berkoff

“There was a period when I lived on book reviews, when I had basked and drawn sustenance from what I deemed the light of…

— Frederick Exley

“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities…

— David Cecil

An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the…

— Storm Jameson

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

— Charity Parkerson

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

— Billy Corgan

“Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.”

— Jack Green

“Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all I want…

— Truman Capote

I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot of other…

— Roger Zelazny

One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature - but…

— Louis Menand