#reviews

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

— Irwin Shaw

#bad one #forget #good #remember #reviews

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves. ↗

— Carly Simon

#bad #got #i #i think #later

There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#made #make #previews #wanted #were

Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell. ↗

— Erica Jong

#literary-criticism #sexism #writer

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #jane-austen #humor

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#bad-reviews #self-publishing #writing #men

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80. ↗

— Patricia Arquette

#i #read #reviews #them #will

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

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