Reviews Quotes

1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or tast...

If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. Yo...

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our sa...

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ...

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shutt...

If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about...

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewe...

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying ...

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not oblige...