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Book Review Quotes

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book Picture Quote #1

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote Picture Quote #1

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so Picture Quote #1

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review Picture Quote #1

One cannot review a bad book without showing off Picture Quote #1

When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They’re writers, they’re critics, and they’re writing about a book about a writer who’s a critic. So I think it’s really hard for people to distance themselves from what they’re criticizing Picture Quote #1

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I thought, well I can do that. I couldn’t be bothered writing a book review, because I’d have to read the book, I haven’t got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up Picture Quote #1

Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author Picture Quote #1

I have turned off Google Alerts and don’t Google my name or my pen names. I don’t go on message boards. I don’t read my book reviews Picture Quote #1

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week’s. Different books same reviews Picture Quote #1

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews Picture Quote #1

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it’s mostly about the reviewer! Picture Quote #1

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It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I’ve written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section Picture Quote #1

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination Picture Quote #1

What a pity when editors review a woman’s book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead Picture Quote #1

Most people don’t have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed Picture Quote #1

Thank you Bjork Peterson for a wonderful review of my new book Why We Love Serial Killers @readingghost Picture Quote #1

I’m interested in so many different things and I’d like to cover a lot of territory. I’m trying to see my show as the Sunday ‘Times.’ You have the Arts and Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review... even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships Picture Quote #1

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I’m never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile Picture Quote #1

The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town Picture Quote #1

So, you see, it’s a real chore for me to write a book review because it’s like a contest. It’s like I’m writing that book review for every bad book reviewer I’ve ever known and it’s a way of saying [thrusts a middle finger into the air] this is how you ought to do it. I like to rub their noses in it Picture Quote #1

If I like a book, I tend to read the author’s entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews Picture Quote #1

Most books reviews aren’t very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book Picture Quote #1

How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of Picture Quote #1

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I was a latecomer to romance, although I did read gothics. My father used to work for the ‘Fort Worth Star-Telegram,’ and their book reviewer, author Leonard Sanders, would pass on the gothics for my dad to give to me since Leonard didn’t review gothics. I gobbled up books by Mary Stewart, Madeleine Brent, Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney Picture Quote #1

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He’s always reading ‘The New York Times Book Review’ and then ordering 20 books online Picture Quote #1

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements Picture Quote #1

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later Picture Quote #1

Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn’t want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life Picture Quote #1

I mean, when you’re tired of book reviews, you’re tired of life Picture Quote #1

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I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book (Book Review Quotes) A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote (Book Review Quotes) I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so (Book Review Quotes) I rarely read or buy a book because of a review (Book Review Quotes) One cannot review a bad book without showing off (Book Review Quotes) When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They’re writers, they’re critics, and they’re writing about a book about a writer who’s a critic. So I think it’s really hard for people to distance themselves from what they’re criticizing (Book Review Quotes) I thought, well I can do that. I couldn’t be bothered writing a book review, because I’d have to read the book, I haven’t got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up. (Book Review Quotes) Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author. (Book Review Quotes) I have turned off Google Alerts and don’t Google my name or my pen names. I don’t go on message boards. I don’t read my book reviews. (Book Review Quotes) Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week’s. Different books same reviews. (Book Review Quotes) I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews. (Book Review Quotes) How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it’s mostly about the reviewer! (Book Review Quotes) It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I’ve written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section. (Book Review Quotes) Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination. (Book Review Quotes) What a pity when editors review a woman’s book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead. (Book Review Quotes) Most people don’t have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed. (Book Review Quotes) Thank you Bjork Peterson for a wonderful review of my new book Why We Love Serial Killers @readingghost (Book Review Quotes) I’m interested in so many different things and I’d like to cover a lot of territory. I’m trying to see my show as the Sunday ‘Times.’ You have the Arts and Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review... even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships. (Book Review Quotes) I’m never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile (Book Review Quotes) The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town (Book Review Quotes) So, you see, it’s a real chore for me to write a book review because it’s like a contest. It’s like I’m writing that book review for every bad book reviewer I’ve ever known and it’s a way of saying [thrusts a middle finger into the air] this is how you ought to do it. I like to rub their noses in it (Book Review Quotes) If I like a book, I tend to read the author’s entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews (Book Review Quotes) Most books reviews aren’t very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book (Book Review Quotes) How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of. (Book Review Quotes) I was a latecomer to romance, although I did read gothics. My father used to work for the ‘Fort Worth Star-Telegram,’ and their book reviewer, author Leonard Sanders, would pass on the gothics for my dad to give to me since Leonard didn’t review gothics. I gobbled up books by Mary Stewart, Madeleine Brent, Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney. (Book Review Quotes) My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He’s always reading ‘The New York Times Book Review’ and then ordering 20 books online. (Book Review Quotes) As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements. (Book Review Quotes) E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later. (Book Review Quotes) Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn’t want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life. (Book Review Quotes) I mean, when you’re tired of book reviews, you’re tired of life (Book Review Quotes)

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