Quotes About Review

A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

I have never had a bad review off a good-looking person.

I prefer a good review. A bad review that dismisses us... I take it with a grain of salt. I go, 'Okay, they didn't even try.'

When a buyer leaves a negative review, it is a great opportunity to connect and find out why they did and how to make your business better.

A review of maths teaching is a great thing, but it's a complex issue, and often the damage is done in the very early years of education.

You go see 'Timothy Green,' and tell me if it doesn't rock your world. I loved it. I loved every frame of it.

When I review my contract, it is to make sure that I am not going to get in trouble or not paid. Then afterward, people say, 'Did you make sure they gave you a green room,' and I'm like, 'No, I didn't get any of the cool stuff.'

Interestingly, relatively few of my correspondents were of the variety familiar to most authors, the users of block capitals and red ink.

I am old and do not suffer fools gently and if you expect me to review your work, it better meet my stringent standards for logic and science.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation

animadversion from that small pipe—that capillary vessel, the Rev.

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

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.

I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

All our words and acts are passing in review before God.

All our policies must be measured by the extent to which they contribute to job creation. Policies that do not create jobs - or that threaten jobs - must be reviewed and revised.

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.

There's no such thing as a short review. It will take a long time to get it started. That's the reality. And it will be probably even longer to complete it.

Obama] was the Harvard Law Review president who never published a word, the community organizer who never organized a thing, the state legislator who voted present. And then one day came the day when it wasn't enough simply to be. For the first time in his life, he had to do it. And it turns out he can't.

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.