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Quotes Tagged "bad-reviews"

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
— Dorothy Parker
Tags: katharine-hepburn, humor, drama-critic, classic-insult, bad-reviews
As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.
— kurt Vonnegut Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Tags: writing, reviewers, literary-criticism, critics, bad-reviews
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
Tags: writing, self-publishing, bad-reviews, aliteracy
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
— Moses Hadas
Tags: time, literary-criticism, irony, classic-insult, books, bad-reviews
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 The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
Tags: sarcasm, novels, literary-criticism, humor, books, bad-reviews, american
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