Quotes About Opinions

Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, 'You know that point they made... they were dead on.'

More exposure leads to more judgment and negativity.

I think there are many Democrats who are good, strong leaders. The person I like the most is my nephew, Congressman Joe Kennedy.

You're always nervous about what critics say - about what anybody has to say, really.

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

Mom got very heated about the new government policy of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In her view it was going to allow closeted gay people into her military and she was really against it... she just assumed I agreed with her opinions.

I am always open to new ideas, but you can't always be right.

New Jersey fans are the most ruthless fans in the country for booing and hating on whatever's in the ring if they don't like it.

I love podcasts! I wish I had my own, although I think there are already too many podcasts, so I don't know how I would create a new one.

There is always some criticism. Tell me one thing that Narendra Modi does and you don't criticise. If he gives a chance to newcomers, you say he forgot the old guard; if he gives a chance to an incumbent, you say Modi doesn't give a chance to young leaders.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

There are women who find nice people attractive... I've never met them.

What other people think of me isn't any of my business but it's nice when people say nice things.

When people you don't know say nice things about you, if you allow yourself, even subconsciously, to attach a shred of meaning to it, when the opposite happens, when people you don't know say bad things about you, you can't attach that same meaning.

People may not like what I have to say - obviously, I get the sarcastic nickname of 'Siri,' because they say I know things.

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

Attending a book group is always a salutary experience for a writer. There's no guarantee that the people there will have enjoyed your book, and, as anyone who has taken part in a book group will know, half the fun is in ripping a book you haven't liked to shreds.

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

I don't watch TV. When people at my house try to talk about TV, I'm like, 'Ah, I have no idea what I'm talking about.'

Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about.

I have no problem with someone who disagrees with my life. That's your right to feel that way.

I have no problem at all if somebody disagrees with me on my politics, or on this, that or whatever. That's fine.