Books Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

“A good critic is trying to tell you what she has learned about herself from the reading of a particular piece of literature. A…

— Kevin Guilfoile

A writer writes a book. People read it. You don't know what they're reading, really. You read a review and think, "That is so…

— James Salter

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 don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

— James Dickey

In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were…

— Christopher Darden

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying…

— William S. Burroughs

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents,…

— Doris Lessing

I think testing films are a great tool. And I think showing them to people that you value their opinion is important, but once…

— Bradley Cooper

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 believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with…

— Antony Beevor