Reviews Quotes - Page 21

• When you get the ideas, that's a thrill; when you're writing the book and it's corning out well, that's a thrill; when you finish it and other people read it, that's a thrill. There are going to be reviews, of course; not everyone's going to love it. You feel sort of naked and vulnerable in a way. That's just a minor part of the process, really. If you can't take that part, you shouldn't be in the business. But there are so many joys to writing.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You hope that people read your book and say "Yes, this is the way it is or could be." But then you have no way of knowing until the reader reads the book. Actually, the critical response doesn't worry me. I've had very few reviews that have upset me.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Knowing, Worry

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, "Yeah, I agree."

  Bob Odenkirk

  Yeah, Worst, Agree

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert S. Bosco's latest novel?" or "Have you read so and so's history of Peru, which is reviewed in the New York Review of Books and the New York Times and has a buzz about it?" I don't even know what you're talking about. I'm like from another planet. I'm a pygmy from the jungle.

  Mark Helprin

  New York, Book, Talking

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• We were very grateful that the response [for Jessica Jones series] has been so positive. If we get a great review, then more people watch it. It's so exciting!

  Krysten Ritter

  Grateful, People, Watches

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• I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.

  Tony Kushner

  New York, Real, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a bad review. You can go, "This guy doesn't have me figured out." There's more mystery to you than they understand.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Nice, People, Guy

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• You know, you get a bad review as a writer, you remember it for 10 years. You get a hundred good reviews, you forget them all. You say hello to a hundred people in the city and it doesn't mean anything to you. One racist comment passes by, and it sticks with you a decade.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Mean, Years, Cities

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Given the cost of borrowings and the $100 billion in Government reserves, there is no reason for us to borrow. We should review the situation carefully. Besides, borrowings are possible, but we must understand what is more profitable at this point.

  Vladimir Putin

  Government, Cost, Reason

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

  Frederick Busch

  Kings, Spite, Ability

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• In these unfiltered, un-moderated social media posts people are speculating about others' motivations. And you could no more put that in a peer review for a journal than you could fly.

  Susan Fiske

  Motivation, Media, People

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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• If people are going to do post-publication peer review, they need to abide by the same rules as they abide by for pre-publication peer review: not being ad hominem, being respectful, giving the author a chance to respond in a reasonable way.

  Susan Fiske

  Giving, People, Peer Review

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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• If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the person's motives, about their place in the hierarchy. It's not scientifically relevant.

  Susan Fiske

  Editors, Peers, Paper

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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• From Iraq to Guantanamo Bay, international standards and the framework of international law are being given less when they should be given more importance. I am pleased that the courts in the United States are beginning to review what has happened to those detained in Guantanamo Bay. Similarly in Iraq we need to bring our strategies back within the framework of international norms and law.

  Mary Robinson

  Law, Iraq, Needs

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Our Feastival of Queens area, which featured five different authentic ethnic foods from Queens, was one of the most popular areas of the festival, and was written about in a number of different reviews.

  Tom Russell

  Queens, Numbers, Festivals

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• One of the very first things I will do is to order a thorough review of our cyberdefenses and weaknesses.

  Donald Trump

  Order, Firsts, Weakness

  "Trump Vows Stronger Military, Safer America" by Mark Swanson, www.newsmax.com. October 3, 2016.

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• It's interesting that during [Hillary Clinton's] FBI review, which took place on a massive holiday and which wasn't recorded and lots of other things, that she went 39 times. She didn't remember, she didn't remember.

  Donald Trump

  Holiday, Interesting, Remember

  Source: time.com

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• Using human rights commitments more effectively, either as part of negotiations in the WTO or as part of the trade policy review process, poses issues of equality in a practical venue.

  Mary Robinson

  Commitment, Rights, Issues

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

  Cornel West

  Accountability, Drones, Citizens

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Careers, Anxiety

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• Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to me, "Shut up and enjoy your money," and I think, OK, I'll shut up and enjoy my money, but why does Stephen King get to enjoy his money and get reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Book Review?

  Jennifer Weiner

  Kings, New York, Book

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• One of my first directives, after taking office, will be asking the Joint Chiefs of Staff and all relevant federal departments to conduct a thorough review of United States cyber defenses and identify all vulnerabilities - and we have to do that immediately - including to our power grid, our communications system, and all vital infrastructure.

  Donald Trump

  Communication, Office, Joints

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry.

  Conrad Aiken

  Book, Typewriters, Machines

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• We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president.

  Chris Matthews

  Trying, President, Next

  "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". "Hardball", www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.

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• The FBI had a right to review that. And they did and they found Hillary Clinton not in any criminal violation.

  Chris Matthews

  Criminals, Clinton, Found

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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