Reviewer Quotes

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

One of my concerns is that writers will begin to feel the censor on their backs, and we won`t get their very best. Instead their fear, or the fear imposed by the publisher, will limit them. When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor, or the reviewer, or anyone but my characters and their story.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

They came across this medical chart; they had a question about it; they requested that it be sent on for review, and there is a disagreement between the reviewer and the treating physician.

Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers hunger for the perfect reviewer.