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Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason. -- Charles Churchill
Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist. -- Anthony Burgess
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets. -- Sara Paretsky
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has. -- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has.' -- Gilbert Hernandez
Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews. -- Evan Daugherty
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. -- Evelyn Waugh
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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
Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are. -- Art Spiegelman
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer. -- J. K. Rowling
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. -- Lenny Bruce
I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong. -- Antony Beevor
I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously. -- Stephen Baldwin
I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work. -- John Grisham
You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one. -- John Irving
In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things. -- Christopher Darden
I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them. -- Judd Apatow
I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on. -- Karin Slaughter
I think reviewers are sexist... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if you're a woman. I just think that's a fact. I really think less value is put in general on women's voices, across the board. -- Marian Keyes
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store? -- Felix Dennis
There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know. -- Marguerite Young
In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go. -- Michael Berryman
Reviewers have called my books 'novels in verse.' I think of them as written in prose, but I do use stanzas. Stanza means 'room' in Latin, and I wanted there to be 'room' - breathing opportunities to receive thoughts and have time to come out of them before starting again at the left margin. -- Virginia Euwer Wolff
The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view. -- Ang Lee
What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. -- James Wolcott
Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible - what do they want to do, ghettoize the working class as a subject? Can you only write about your own class? I've written about royalty, am I not allowed to do that? -- Martin Amis
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else! -- Ayana Mathis
I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career. -- Kate Smith
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing. -- Harold Clurman
If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do -- Roger Deakins
The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface. -- Philip Guedalla
Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive. -- Henry Blodget
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong. -- Antony Beevor
I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much. -- Bobby Farrelly
I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from. -- Van Morrison
Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap. -- Joni Mitchell
I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does. -- Billy Collins
I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan. -- Stephen Jay Gould
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
Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that. -- Jane Yolen
Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves. -- James Black
Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience. -- V. S. Pritchett
That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a reviewer whose tastes match your own. -- Kevin J. Anderson
I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like. -- Bobby Farrelly
I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem to be bothered by the complications at all. -- Heidi Julavits
I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess. -- Lorrie Moore
Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation. -- Charlotte Bronte
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I don't read the reviews because they're too horrible and the reviewers have not been big supporters of mine over the years, probably because I make these big populist movies and they hate it. -- Rob Cohen
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds. -- John Irving
It never stops me from saying what I want to say about Ethiopia, the fact that a tour company is paid for me to go there. Book reviewers don't pay for the books they review. -- John Gimlette
I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them. -- Nia Vardalos

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