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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
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
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
When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.
— Liberace
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
[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
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
[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
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
Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews.
— Heidi Julavits
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
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
[Women Know Everything!] — Dorothy Parker
[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 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
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
American novels, answered Lord Henry. — Oscar Wilde
Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.
— Nigel Hamilton
Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.
— Neil Diamond