Book Quote by Kate Zambreno

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

— Fanny Fern

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

— Kate Zambreno

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it…

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Anthony Burgess

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If…

— Erica Jong

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

It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly expressed views.…

— Justin Cartwright

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

— Anonymous

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

— Edna Longley

I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my…

— Karin Slaughter

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han