#reviews

The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#any #because #believe #ever #fact

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

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#jane-austen #library

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

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#bad-reviews #books #humor #literary-criticism #novels

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. Groucho Marx ↗

— Timar

#literary-criticism #literary-criticism

Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name." (Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.) ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#literary-criticism #novels #the-davinci-code #writing #literary-criticism

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#ficbookreviews-fave #life #dreams