Reviews Quotes - Page 19

• Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.

  Alexander Theroux

  Book, Race, Etc

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Laughter, Stupid, Sometimes

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.

  Kate Zambreno

  Males

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to the end of a piece of work, of making it as good as you can at that moment, is more of a relief than anything else, and then you wait for reviews.

  Dani Shapiro

  Waiting, Feelings, Relief

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in criticisms of religion even clarity ceases to be a virtue and sounds like aggressive hostility. A politician may attack an opponent scathingly across the floor of the House and earn plaudits for his robust pugnacity. But let a soberly reasoning critic of religion employ what would in other contexts sound merely direct or forthright, and it will be described as a 'rant'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, House, Criticism

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.

  Ellie Goulding

  Writing, Realising

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• The funny thing is that some reviews are published in magazines and websites that are seen by millions of people, and other reviews are in very small publications or less popular websites, and you just have to be lucky to have the good reviews land in places where more people see them, and bad reviews land in places where they will be less seen.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Land, Funny Things, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What can you think when one review says "this album is brilliant, and all the songs flow into the utmost brilliant song 'The Upside-Down Cross'" then another review says "this album is brilliant, except for that horrible and pointless song 'The Upside-Down Cross'," and another review will say "Jeffrey really sounds confident and relaxed on this new album", the next reviewer says "Jeffrey sounds more depressed and awful than ever" - these totally contrasting reviews happen all the time!

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Thinking, Awful

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm still pretty confused about what "plot" means. I've been reading some of my Goodreads reviews and one reader noted that the The Last Days of California "reads like a short story stretched to the breaking point, padded and brought into novel range..." I don't know what people want, really.

  Mary J. Miller

  Confused, Reading, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When my stories were translated into other languages and received good reviews in the international press and won prizes, some Arab festivals and newspapers began to take an interest in what I had produced. This sudden Arab interest is a form of hypocrisy and nonsense.

  Hassan Blasim

  Hypocrisy, Stories, Festivals

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don't know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn't know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn't have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stuff on stage. He could just do it.

  Toni Morrison

  Fun, Block, Reading

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• I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were "bad reviews," they were kind of reviewing another movie.

  Don Cheadle

  Curiosity, Looks, Hearing

  "We talked to Don Cheadle about his new Miles Davis movie, biopics, and why he's not boycotting the Oscars". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. January 25, 2016.

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• On the other side, you have the conservative intelligentsia - magazines like National Review, which has a big anti-Trump issue; Weekly Standard editor, conservative talk show hosts - they're mounting a big anti-Trump effort, pro-Cruz effort because they think [Donald] Trump is dangerous and he's not qualified to be commander in chief.

  Mara Liasson

  Thinking, Editors, Issues

  "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.

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• I went on tours with [Bob] Dylan - the big one was in 1975 and called Roaring Thunder Review. I knew him well because I met him around the time he did his second album, in 1963. He recorded one of my songs called Shadows. In the 1970s, it was suggested that we do a duet, because we had the same manager, Albert Grossman, who also managed Odetta and Peter, Paul and Mary. Dylan and I respected what each other did, but I just decided not to do it.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Shadow, Roaring

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• Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review my movies, it's like they want to play chess with the mastermind and show off every reference they can find, even when half of it is all of their own making.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Play, Trying, Half

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

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• In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

  Gail Sheehy

  Girlfriend, Children, Facts

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• The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.

  Rick Moody

  Writing, Ideas, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Meaning can be usually be approximated, but often by sacrificing style. When I review my translations into Spanish, that's what I'm most concerned with, reading the sentences aloud in Spanish to make sure they sound the way I want them to. To be honest, I much prefer being translated into Greek or Japanese; in those cases, you have no way of being involved, and no pressure.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Reading, Sacrifice, Greek

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Hank Stuever

  Strong, Numbers, Together

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Just as it's unfair to review a taco stand for not being a four-star restaurant, I also have to be mindful that not every drama on TV is trying to be "The Wire."

  Hank Stuever

  Stars, Drama, Trying

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. Janaury 28, 2016.

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• 'Princess' is a good word, as is 'girlish', 'pixie-like' and all these other things. I personally find it a bit boring, it's all been done before. The amount of times you read reviews of bands and it's an all-girl four-piece, and they talk about what the women are wearing... you'll never read a review that's like: "Male singer Thom Yorke, who was dressed in a white t-shirt and jeans..." You would never read that about a man.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Girl, Princess, Men

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• The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label of "immigrant literature" after I had read quite a number of reviews (in different countries) involving books written by 'immigrants.'

  Sasa Stanisic

  Country, Book, Writing

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play called The Changing Room written by a wonderful man named David Story. It was about a rugby team in the North of England. It got just screaming rave reviews. At that time, virtually every major critic went up to the Long Wharf Theater to see a new play like that.

  Richard Masur

  New York, Team, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always get a little bit scared reading reviews.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Reading, Littles, Scared

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.

  Gerard Way

  Thinking, Music Is, Listening To Music

  "Interview: My Chemical Romance Is 'For F***Ing Lif'". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 25, 2012.

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