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A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland. — Betty Hill

Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes. - commentary on Castles on the Sand — E.M. Tippetts

There's a guy, Anatole Broyard, of the N. Y. Times Book Review, who's still chasing Kerouac's corpse with a stiletto. — Allen Ginsberg

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online. — Carrie Coon

I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong. — Jill Lepore

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
[in review of a book] — Abraham Lincoln

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

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination. — Stephen Vizinczey

If you have the indecency to steal my book, at least have the decency to write a review. — Grea Alexander

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book. — Walter Kaufmann

This book came to me for review, but when I observed its count of pages I quietly dropped it behind the piano. — H.L. Mencken

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book. — Edward Abbey

A writer should not review a book. A reviewer should not write. — Bhaskar Sharma

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review. — Jim Harrison

You now can buy my book on amazon barnes & noble createspace and book review is to come for this book in 45 days — Todd Johnson

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer! — Kathryn Harrison

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. — Robert Breault

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is nothing like a good negative review to sell a book. — Hugh Barbour

every time a reader leaves a book review, a crippled monkey gets a free banana. I — Bobby Adair

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so. — Oscar Wilde

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book. — Groucho Marx

Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire. — Leah Price

Here I end (thank God) the first and dullest business of this book - the rough review of recent thought. — G.K. Chesterton

Nowadays, even The New York Times Book Review is afraid to say when a popular book is crap. — Lorin Stein

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin

Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable. — Anthony Trollope

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself. — Edward Abbey

Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up — Alexandra Potter

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead. — Fanny Fern