(592 quotes found)
“The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.”
George W. Bush
“A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it”
Danielle Steel
“I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike”
Cyril Connolly
“It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.”
Roger Maris
“Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.”
William S. Burroughs
“Reviewers must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.”
Walter Kerr
“I have read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an eight ulcer man on a four ulcer job Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes and perhaps a supporter below.”
Harry S Truman
“We continue to be disappointed. We continue to review our strategic options.”
Robert Johnston
“One cannot review a bad book without showing off.”
W. H. Auden
“When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank”
Liberace
