#review

I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#interview #job #judgement #observation #paris-review

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. ↗

— Moses Hadas

#books #classic-insult #irony #literary-criticism #time

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability. ↗

— Martin Amis

#don-quixote #literary-criticism #miguel-de-cervantes #literary-criticism

There's ALWAYS a book. ↗

— Cleolinda Jones

#movies

The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#bipartisan #committee #conducted #extremely #invitation

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#book #bothered #dollar #fifty #got

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. ↗

— David Zucker

#audience #feels #get #guy #how

Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art. ↗

— Brian Cox

#art #astonishing #because #color #director

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#anything #doing #experienced #field #job

While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#could #create #fruitful #improve #litigation