Being positive Quote by Patti Smith

I prefer a good review. A bad review that dismisses us... I take it with a grain of salt. I go, 'Okay, they didn't…

— Benji Madden

A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.

— Don Winslow

What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to…

— Kate Thompson

I am good in the fact that most of my reviews have been very positive really. I get pretty good reviews. There have been…

— Robert Barry

“Positive reviews are energizing. Negative reviews are teaching moments and the writer must pay attention, gleaning what is helpful and ignoring the personal jabs.”

— Liz Cowan

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

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

— Joyce Carol Oates

My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.

— Hank Stuever

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

— Billy Corgan

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things…

— Nick Cave

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about…

— Ann Patchett

I will say that over the years I've been associated with things that were well-reviewed that I wasn't particularly crazy about, and I've been…

— James LeGros