Sprizzi Reviews Quotes

It's a very specific body. Even great reviews will be like: chubby, portly, overweight ... Sometimes I'm like, 'Ugh, how did I make myself the guinea pig for this?' But on the other hand, hating my body has not been my cross to bear in this life. Which I feel very lucky about. ~ Lena Dunham

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

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence. ~ Martin McGuinness

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism. ~ Fiona Apple

With such a vast and wonderful library spread out before us, we often skim books or read just the reviews. We might already have encountered the Greatest Idea, the insight that would have transformed us had we savored it, taken it to heart, and worked it into our lives. ~ Jonathan Haidt

My great love is the stage because I do feel like it's the place where, if you're lucky and everything is firing in the right way, you have the greatest shot at being successful. I don't mean by getting great reviews, but I mean by finding the core fo the person that you're playing. ~ Sarah Paulson

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

Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences. ~ George Will

[On Brave New World] "Mr. Huxley has been born too late. Seventy years ago, the great powers of his mind would have been anchored to some mighty certitude, or to some equally mighty scientific denial of a certitude. Today he searches heaven and earth for a Commandment, but searches in vain: and the lack of it reduces him, metaphorically speaking, to a man standing beside a midden, shuddering and holding his nose. ~ L.A.G. Strong

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me. ~ Irvin Kershner

Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent ... this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare. ~ Clifton Fadiman

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

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

The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An art film means it got a lot of good reviews and nobody went. There is no such thing as a counter culture now. What used to be considered that is commercial now. ~ John Waters

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. ~ Les Brown

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

Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed mistakes lead to bad reviews. Bad reviews are the tools of the dark side. ~ Eric T. Benoit

If you are in a competitive industry, great online reviews are not just nice to have, they are a requirement! ~ Tom Kenemore

We are so programmed to feel that our emotions are the most important thing in the Universe ... We write, produce and act in the story of me. And then we write reviews - and read them and get more depressed. All we can do is let go, and that comes from training. And then we spend less and less time in the darker spaces. ~ Krishna Das

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists. ~ Estelle Parsons

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women. ~ Jami Attenberg

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

Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption. ~ Warren Murphy

I'm not used to getting good reviews. ~ Pauly Shore

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

He waits a long time. The captain reviews the fingernails ~ Anthony Doerr

Make a list of your food-centric passions, as well as the types of posts - reviews, top-ten lists, and interviews are ~ Kelly Senyei

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

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass. ~ Fred Thompson

I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book ... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life. ~ Jodi Picoult