Fantastic Quote by Katherine Dunham

My husband, William Sutcliffe, the writer, is my first reader and in many ways my most important. That initial reading of the manuscript is…

— Maggie O'Farrell

It's always good to get good reviews. I read my reviews. There are a lot of writers who don't read their reviews at all.…

— Neel Mukherjee

I am never much interested in the effects of what I write....I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two times out…

— H. L. Mencken

I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's…

— Darryl Pinckney

Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine…

— J. K. Rowling

You get terribly depressed if they're bad for you and if they're good then you start playing your reviews, emphasizing those things that the…

— Rosemary Harris

Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It…

— Eleanor Catton

In general, I've been treated well by reviews, and there are times when I haven't. The truth is that I've come to feel like…

— Jake Kasdan

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was…

— C. S. Lewis

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

As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for…

— Anthony Horowitz

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

— Edward Abbey