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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

To review ones store is to mow twice.

Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.

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

I always get a little bit scared reading reviews.

I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.

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.

My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.

I often don't read reviews.

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers

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.

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

I never read reviews of something I want to see.

I don't watch dailies. I don't pretend not to read reviews, I just don't. I wait for it to come on the air, just like everybody else.

Basically [I become a Republican], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review.

In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of user-generated content was pretty nascent in 2004.

I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line up and continual demand.

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.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.

People care enough to write blogs and reviews and things, which is nice.

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

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

I remember the review from Michael Wilmington in Chicago, and Gene Siskel wrote really smart reviews where I thought, "Oh, they totally get what we're attempting to do."

You should look up some of the reviews. The New York Times review is so over-the-top funny. It's hysterical. You should dig it out.

I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."

It's better not to read your reviews. Just go and do the thing... it would drive you crazy otherwise.

I'm always surprised when people say, "Oh, it got such mixed reviews." I guess I didn't read them.

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

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

Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, You know that point they made... they were dead on.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.