Reviewer Quote by Mark O'Brien

“This is what people call a view. And you knew that from below you wouldn't look nearly so high overhead. You see now how…

— David Foster Wallace

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

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

— John Banville

“[P]ersonally, I know I’d prefer to read an honest review by someone who has no reason to lie, than a book reviewer who has…

— Catherine Ryan Howard

“I love to read, but I'm not a reviewer. I'll leave the reviewing to someone else. Suffice it to say, if I'm reading your…

— John Inman

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

— Flannery O'Connor

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader,…

— Karen Hesse

I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys…

— Martin Freeman

When I first played Othello, a reviewer absolutely slaughtered me.

— David Harewood

I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure…

— Michael Dirda

The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book. Often, that…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that…

— George R. R. Martin