Reviewers Quotes - Page 5

• Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it. Every writer I know is the same way: you get a hundred good reviews, and one bad, andyou remember only the bad. For years, you go on and fantasize about the reviewer who didn't like your book; you imagine him as a jerk, a wife-beater, a real ogre. And, in the meantime, the reviewer has forgotten all about the whole thing. But, twenty years later, the writer still remembers that one bad review.

  Art Buchwald

  Real, Book, Years

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• 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 or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• 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

  Bombs, Making Money, Reviews

  Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. July 9, 2008.

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• I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Mean, Fans

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• I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

  John Green

  Book, Used, Reviews

  "John Green Interview: ‘Fault In Our Stars’ Author Talks Worst Book Ever, Where He Likes To Read". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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• [Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, New York, Humorous

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• 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

  Hate, Thinking, Care

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Cynical, Waiting, Flying

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• Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mother, Father, Married

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.

  Chris O'Dowd

  World, Worst

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Country, Mean, Magic

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• I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

  Lois Lowry

  Thinking, People, Empowering

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• What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

  Patrice Leconte

  Cinema, Should

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• Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

  Richard Holt Hutton

  Men, Criticism, Newspapers

  Richard Holt Hutton, Robert H. Tener, Malcolm Woodfield (1989). “A Victorian spectator: uncollected writings of R.H. Hutton”, Bristol Classical Pr

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• There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Book, Television, Radio

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• 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

  Women, Writing, Names

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• A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

  Austin O'Malley

  Book, Doors, Circus

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• 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

  Different, Care, Pages

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• 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

  Comedy, Reviews, Feels

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• I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they’re all the same as that coach.

  Kanye West

  Fashion, Team, Juniors

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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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

  Jobs, Depth, Tough

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• The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two other writers that this reviewer can think of have each created an entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit, and they are Joyce and Proust. It is not pretentious to place Patrick O'Brian in the first canon of literature.

  Kevin Myers

  Thinking, Skills, Two

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• Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.

  John Updike

  Struggle, Editors, Class

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 30, 2014

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• 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

  Book, Simple, House

  "Wrestling Life Into Fable". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2005.

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• If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Character, Giving

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