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There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Fenimore Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now. — Mark Twain

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention. — M. Night Shyamalan

I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to them, I'm always sort of floored by what the bad ones say. — Will Chase

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again. — Mark Twain

The bad reviews get to me, believe me. — Daniel Craig

If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks — Susan Egan

I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews. — John Updike

Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it — William Meikle

One cannot review a bad book without showing off. — W. H. Auden

On a book by Henry James: Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up. — Mark Twain

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. — Mark Twain

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. — Moses Hadas

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank. — Liberace

When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews. — Adam McKay

I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad. — Sia Furler

I'm only ... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a ... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy. — Alan King

Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves. — Colin Quinn

I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile. — Simone Signoret

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head. — Kim Cattrall

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can. — Paul Haggis

Monsieur Flaubert is not a writer. [1857] — Le Figaro

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again. — Danielle Steel

[about Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises] His characters are as shallow as the saucers in which they stack their daily emotions. — The New York Times

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one. — Irwin Shaw

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. — Werner Herzog

With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks! — Peter Farrelly

I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad. — Eve Best

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. — Dorothy Parker

If a book isn't at least somewhat polarizing, it didn't say anything of value.
[Blog entry - November 1, 2014] — Ilona Andrews

Frankly, anybody who's going to kill themselves because of a bad review has no business writing a novel in the first place. — Robert Galbraith

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious. — Mary Stuart Masterson

You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion. — Simon Taylor-Davis

Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell. — Erica Jong

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers. — Sheila Nevins

I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job. — Simon Schama

I'm not one to get bad reviews. — Prince

It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews. — Kenny Loggins

Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews. — Heidi Julavits

Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life. — Will Friedle

The reviewer's view knew not of the true part of the writer's view, so good or bad, do not brew, and let them through to another part of you. — Mark Donnelly

I'm used to bad reviews. — Roger Moore

Envy isn't always green; it's often black and white!" (On book reviews - from an article written in 2013) — Eric J. Gates

I live in the house bad reviews built. — Paul Stanley

I get a sick joy out of bad reviews. I don't read good reviews. — Evan Goldberg

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones. — Jay Rayner

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
[Women Know Everything!] — Dorothy Parker

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability. — Martin Amis

I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them. — Oscar Levant

I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children. — Mark Twain

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. — Iris Murdoch

I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad. — Kelli O'Hara

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

Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore. — Amanda Peet

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves. — Carly Simon

[Middlemarch] is a treasure-house of details, but it is an indifferent whole. — Henry James

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

Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence. — Nigel Hamilton

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity. — Max Winkler

Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored. — Neil Diamond

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart. — David Ives