Reviews Quote by Joyce Carol Oates Download Open image “A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.” — Joyce Carol Oates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Reviews Surprise Sympathetic Wonderful
It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me. — Larry David Copy Share Image
The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else! — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why.… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I'm not going to be pretentious and two-faced to get a good review. But that's the kind of thing which gets you a rep… — Tricky Copy Share Image
I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure. — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Newspapers have an extraordinary amount of local content, including real estate listings and restaurant reviews. — Kimbal Musk Copy Share Image
When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.' — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing. — James Franco Copy Share Image
In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
I'll put out an album, and people review it, and some people love it, and some people tear it apart. By nature of the… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers. — Sheila Nevins Copy Share Image
