Books Quote by Michael Dirda

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

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

— Roland Joffe

“There was a period when I lived on book reviews, when I had basked and drawn sustenance from what I deemed the light of…

— Frederick Exley

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to…

— Toni Morrison

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

— Tibor Fischer

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

— Ann Beattie

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

“Honest Book reviews done by skilled reviewers helps Authors a lot to work hard and come up with an optimum out come.....”

— Sanjeev K. Sharma

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

— Dustin Hoffman

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

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

— Groucho Marx

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans…

— Jodi Picoult