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Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are. By Mark Lawson Sex Acting Critics Originality Photography

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world. By Tom Stoppard Read Care Writers Insist Reviews

I don't usually read reviews. I usually read the interviews, just because I figure it's a good way to try to do them better if I ever have to do them again. By Will Oldham Reviews Read Interviews Figure Good

Writing is what we do for a living; reviewing is what gangster bullies do for fun! By Anne Rice Writing Living Reviewing Fun Gangster

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious. By Mary Stuart Masterson Reviews Read Reading Bad Selfconscious

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much. By Bobby Farrelly Reviewers Feel Page Learned Care

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them. By John Grisham Anymore Good Sold Books Reviews

There was a period when I lived on book reviews, when I had basked and drawn sustenance from what I deemed the light of their intelligence, the beneficience of their charm. But something had gone sour. Over the years I had read too much, in dim-lighted railway stations, lying on the davenports of strangers' houses, in the bleak and dismal wards of insane asylums. That reading had forced the charm to relinquish itself. Now I found that reviews were not only bland but scarcely, if ever, relevant; and that all books, whether works of imagination or the blatant frauds of literary whores, were approached by the reviewer with the same crushing sobriety. I wanted to reviewer to be fair, kind, and funny. I wanted to be made to laugh. By Frederick Exley Intelligence Period Lived Basked Drawn

There is the review intended to sell a book, - which comes out immediately after the appearance of the book, or sometimes before it; the review which gives reputation, but does not affect the sale, and which comes a little later; the review which snuffs a book out quietly; the review which is to raise or lower the author a single peg, or two pegs, as the case may be; the review which is suddenly to make an author, and the review which is to crush him. By Anthony Trollope Review Book Author Peg Pegs

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. By Jeffrey Lewis Reviews Land Places Websites People

I'm not one to get bad reviews. By Prince Reviews Bad

I just don't read reviews, because it can really hurt you. By Toni Tennille Reviews Read Hurt

I never read my reviews ... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work. By Pat Conroy Reviews Read Streisand Barbra Applaud

It's always good to get good reviews. I read my reviews. There are a lot of writers who don't read their reviews at all. I read them; then I put them away because it's not good to engage with them too much. By Neel Mukherjee Reviews Good Read Lot Writers

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers. By Sheila Nevins Lots Reviews Papers Read Good

My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review. By Hank Stuever Critic Review Work Restaurant Number

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus. By Austin O'malley Circus Book Reviewer Barker Door

Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity." By Steve Martin Reviews Packages Justifiable Praise Criticism

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath. By Michael Chabon Breath Time Review Deep

I don't believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well. By James Dickey Reviewer Critic Criticize Praise

The worse the reviews, the better for our demographic. By Johnny Knoxville Reviews Demographic Worse

If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken.[on Twitter, July 17, 2012] By Scott Lynch July Review Work Kraken Twitter

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride. By Anish Kapoor Review Stride Bad

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them. By John Banville Work Critical Reviewer Simply Read

I'm used to bad reviews. By Roger Moore Reviews Bad

My friends and family have been so well trained that they know I really mean it when I say that I don't care if the review is good, because that can be as dangerous as when it's bad. It's less demoralizing, but it can be just as confusing. By Richard Greenberg Good Bad Friends Family Trained

The Internet is the Wild West of the world, where anybody can throw anything down. Everything can be as relevant as the next thing; it doesn't matter who posts it. In that environment, the Critics' Choice is still very important. By James Bay Internet Wild West World Throw

Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic. By Frank Sinatra Audience Number People Bad Good

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience. By Roger Ebert Truth Reactions Experience Feel Good

I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them. By Mike Nichols Reviews Expect Bemused

I will say that over the years I've been associated with things that were well-reviewed that I wasn't particularly crazy about, and I've been in things that didn't get very good reviews that I was rather fond of. By James Legros Things Years Wellreviewed Crazy Good

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around. By Roland Joffe Tough Job Movie Reviewing Film

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews. By Joanne Harris Authors Reviews Time Expect Criticism

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval. By Lee Siegel Web Approval Critic Relies Readers

The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews. By Ben Brantley Critic Day Cliche Truer Internet

I try my hardest not to read reviews. By Sophie Ellis-Bextor Reviews Hardest Read

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews. By Bob Woodward Reviews Argue

If I had my way, I wouldn't do annual reviews, if I felt that everybody would be more honest about positive and negative feedback along the way. I think the annual review process is so antiquated. By Carol Bartz Annual Felt Honest Positive Negative

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers. By Jami Attenberg Readings Love Reviews Readers Give

I try not to read reviews because I know how sensitive I am and how debilitating it is and how it follows me around. If they're bad, you feel terrible, you feel worthless, no matter if you think they're wrong - and if they're good, it feels cheap and sleazy because you went looking for it. By Thao Nguyen Read Reviews Sensitive Debilitating Feel

A writer without reviews is like racing car without an engine - shows lots of potential but it's never going anywhere. Lillian White By Lillian White Engine Shows White Writer Reviews

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity. By Max Winkler Reviews Good Bad Sanity Read

Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes. By John O'hara Book Sexes Reviewers Ladies

I think if you're going to read reviews, you have to just concede that they are all right. And I think I read two very diametrically opposed reviews about my movie and I had to go, yeah, I agree with both of them. By Don Cheadle Read Reviews Concede Yeah Diametrically

I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness. By Charlie Kaufman Reviews Online Tend Read Stupid

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going. By Nick Cave Shame Reviews Read Undying Kind

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view. By Gore Vidal Reviews View Read Potential Lawsuit

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones. By Jay Rayner People Reviews Adore Bad Interested

The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night. By Val Kilmer Job Good People Told Years

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid. By Anne Carson Opinions Read Reviews Lose Space

Journaling has become one of the most gratifying and fulfilling practices of my life. Not only do I derive the daily benefits of consciously directing my thoughts and putting them in writing, but even more powerful are those I have gained from reviewing my journals. By Hal Elrod Journaling Life Gratifying Fulfilling Practices

Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews. By Evan Daugherty Reviewers Opinions Entitled Directors Honest

Don't let a bad review get you down. You can't always please everyone. By B.a. Gabrielle Bad Review

I am good in the fact that most of my reviews have been very positive really. I get pretty good reviews. There have been some that aren't - critical. I think they are extremely - the people that wrote them really don't understand what they are looking at quite frankly or have a very preconceived notion of what conceptual art should be or where I am at or the fact that I may change what I have done from what I did 20 years ago. But there is always some reason that they just sort of get it wrong. And so it certainly doesn't affect my work. By Robert Barry Good Reviews Fact Positive Critical

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head. By Kim Cattrall Head Read Reviews Bad Devastated

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to leave feedback! By Samantha Jones Feedback Time Leave

Critics are already made. By Lord Byron Critics Made

If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I think you should write to reviewers or comment and say, "Are you kidding me?" By Romola Garai Read Reviews Nature Respectful Actresses

Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it By William Meikle Reviews Readers Writers Bad Shrug

I like critics with strong opinions. By Chuck Eddy Opinions Critics Strong

A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite the novel's consummate, unmitigated tedium. By Michael Dirda Brodkey Soul Reviewer Lot Easy

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time. By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Time Philosophical Philosophy Review Reviews

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Man Criticised Greater Read Reviews

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts. By Jeffrey Robinson Critics Lampposts Authors Dogs

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. By Don Cheadle Classics Feedback Sony Pictures Movie

I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile. By Dave Eggers People Form Reviewing Fan Sociopathic

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. By Rob Cohen Big Years Read Reviews Horrible

I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job ... I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below. By Harry S. Truman Review Read Lousy Man Success

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. By George Orwell Prolonged Indiscriminate Thankless Irritating Job

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all. By Steven Spielberg Read Career Older Reviews Earlier

I'm used to getting reviews. I try not to read much because you'll always focus on the bad ones and not remember the good ones, so it can be a negative thing for a performer. By Sam Trammell Reviews Performer Read Focus Bad

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. By William Faulkner Artists Writers Read Reviews Write

I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the good!). I am just too curious to see how it's playing with the audience, and I have a thick-enough skin to handle the less charitable assessments. By Frank Spotnitz Good Bad Reviews Read Remember

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. By V.s. Pritchett Practically Aspirations Audience Reviewers Academic

I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too. By Bonnie Langford Reviews Read Things Articles Outlook

During the course of any normal day, I usually pay more attention to assembling a grocery list than I do to reading movie reviews, although there are a more than a few film critics who bring huge insight to their work. By Mike Barnicle Day Reviews Work Normal Pay

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view. By Ang Lee Critics Reviewers Thing Call Critique

[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me. By Tallulah Bankhead House Review Critic Wrote Negative

I don't care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does ... By Ginger Rogers Care Critics Fabulous Mom Give

I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews. By Mark Ruffalo Rebuttal Review Reviews

I don't take reviews very seriously, but in their totality I think they are representative of how the audience feels, and of what their reaction is. There's always one guy who doesn't get it. By David Zucker Feels Reviews Totality Representative Audience

I read every review online, and I want to respond to those, but I resist the urge to do that. By Peter V. Brett Online Read Review Respond Resist

A writer should not review a book. A reviewer should not write. By Bhaskar Sharma Book Writer Review Write Reviewer

Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore. By Amanda Peet Times York Anymore Bad Read

If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion. By Gareth Gates Review Opinion Bad Personally Entitled

I have had a lot of readers of my book tell me that they like it, but so far only two reviews have been listed. Could you help? By Rollis Fontenot Jr Listed Lot Readers Book Reviews

Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, 'You know that point they made ... they were dead on.' By Kelley Armstrong Great Reviews Made Read Negative

Whoever writes a bad review, I put their name on a list, and they're going to get taken care of one day down the road. Otherwise, I don't let it bother me. The truth is, these are review-proof movies. The audiences are going to see it. My audience, our audience, isn't reading Esquire magazine to see if my movie is good or not. They just want to laugh, to be entertained, and lose themselves. By Brett Ratner Review List Road Writes Bad

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet. By Aaron Johnson Internet Online Reviews Read

Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap. By Joni Mitchell Lazy Thing People Crap Reviewers

Five people read my work before its ready for publication, and I solicit opinions from all of them: my wife, my agent, my editor, and my parents. By Jesse Kellerman Publication Wife Agent Editor Parents

Feedbacks are brands free assessment tool By Bernard Kelvin Clive Feedbacks Tool Brands Free Assessment

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms. By Joyce Carol Oates Reviews Read Critical Essays Exception

An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him. By Storm Jameson Intelligent Man Woman Make Career

I believe the best reviews are any of those wherein readers share their true opinion, no matter how many stars they rate my work. When I receive responses from appreciative people thanking for useful and amusing reading, it feels like my wings stretch up and blood carries the highest happiness circulating in my veins. I think many writers will understand what I mean by that. By Sahara Sanders Opinion Work Reviews Readers Share

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book. By Tibor Fischer Wellwritten Reviews Books Book Tend

What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers By Jack Welch Review Budget Numbers Personal

I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to them, I'm always sort of floored by what the bad ones say. By Will Chase Production Read Reviews Finally Sort

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. By Isaac Bashevis Singer Children Books Reviews Read Critics

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.' By Rose Tremain Listen Trusted Readers Criticisms Preferences