Advantage Quote by Lev Grossman

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

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

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

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I read reviews of critics I respect and feel I can learn something from. Right now there are a lot of bottom-feeder critics who…

— Alexander Payne

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

It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be judged because…

— Dean Wareham

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

— Louis Menand

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

Here's the thing: Authors live or die by recommendations. [That's one of the reason I review so many books on Goodreads.] Giving books you…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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've always liked an easygoing, colloquial style. I like the kind of reviewer who is essentially a fellow reader, an enthusiast, a fan.

— Michael Dirda