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Quotes Tagged "reviewers"

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
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
— Dorothy L. Sayers The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1
Tags: writing, selling-out, self-expression, reviewers, pandering, integrity, honesty, creative-process
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
— James Russell Lowell
Tags: writing, reviewers, review, nature
An author’s great day is releasing your book into the world like a butterfly and having a reviewer come upon it and say…oh, that’s lovely!
— Nanette L. Avery
Tags: reviews, reviewers, reviewed, novels, good-days, criticism, critic, butterfly, books, authors
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