#evie

If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing. If bad reviews (of whatever kind) upset you, just don’t read them. It’s not like you’ve signed an agreement with the person buying the book to exchange your book for their opinion. Do whatever you have to do to keep making art. I know people who love bad reviews, because it means they’ve made something happen and made people talk; I know people who have never read any of their reviews. It’s their call. You get on with making art. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#encouragement #inspiration #neil-gaiman #reviews #art

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#boston #give #globe #i #i write

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now? ↗

— Chris Elliott

#cabin #keeps #looking #me #morning

I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World. ↗

— Will Friedle

#end #had #i #meets #positive

Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit. ↗

— Greta Gerwig

#also #bad #bit #doing #earned

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#assumed #constitutional #curb #decline #efforts

The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security. ↗

— Jane Harman

#committee #diverse #how #include #intelligence

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#also #appreciation #audiences #enabled #even

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one. ↗

— John Irving

#book #critics #done #dwell #feel

But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#bad #bad review #because #coat #even