Anxiety Quote by Jennifer Weiner

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

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez

“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.”

— Nandi Berry

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

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

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

“Don't listen to critics. Their job is to critique. You're a writer. Your job is to write.”

— Ksenia Anske

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Tibor Fischer

“She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good.”

— Anthony Trollope

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.

— Naomi Alderman

“I think that there have been displays of an impoverished reading of the book. I get the distinct feeling at times that certain critics…

— Joshua Ferris