It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.
Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, You know that point they made... they were dead on.
I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.
I'm always surprised when people say, "Oh, it got such mixed reviews." I guess I didn't read them.
The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.
The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.
I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
Basically [I become a Republican], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review.
I never read reviews of something I want to see.
I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.
For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.
What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers
We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.
We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
I often don't read reviews.
I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem to be bothered by the complications at all.
Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews.
I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.
By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.
I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.
Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that Ive earned my stripes a bit.
I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.
To review ones store is to mow twice.
