Book Quote by Louis Aragon

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

— Edward Abbey

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

— Edward Abbey

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“My reviews of the above books appear in my series, A Literary Cavalcade. Reviews are listed alphabetically by author across the six volumes.”

— Robert A. Parker

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

— Anonymous

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

— Neel Mukherjee

“The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to…

— C.S. Lewis

“Critics were rigid and hidebound, never willing to give due credit for anything that didn’t fit in with their predetermined parameters of what fiction…

— Therese Anne Fowler

“Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.”

— F. Sionil José

Books belong to their readers.

— John Green

Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances…

— Paul Di Filippo