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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.

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.

Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.

If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do.

I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.

When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

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.

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.

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

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.

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.

I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.

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.

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.

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.

The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else!

You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

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.

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.

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

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.

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.

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.

The gender inequality in book reviewing isn't getting better. Male authors get the majority of review coverage, and male reviewers do most of the reviewing. It's kind of devastating.

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.

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

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.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive.

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.

You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.

If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell.

Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.