Book Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.

— Frank Peretti

“You yourself told us that in the final analysis we are our own betrayers, playing Judas to our own Christ”

— Azar Nafisi

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

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

— Oscar Wilde

I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify…

— John Updike

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

— Richard Ford

The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them.

— Jackie Collins

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

— Jackie Collins

Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect I'll have…

— Richard Meltzer

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel…

— John Grisham

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

— Elaine Pagels