Reviewers Quotations | Page 2

Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.

The celebrity reviewers are people we contacted who, on a genre-specific basis, we assumed would have an interest in doing this.

Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

In my first story, 'Mr. Mysterious & Company'... I was asked to take out some of the humor because editors were afraid reviewers would dismiss the book as a joke. Today, humor is enjoyed and no longer regarded as literary brummagem.

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.

I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.

Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read and admired as autobiographical expression. And thanks to the democratic exposures of the web, it's easier than ever to document private experiences and divulge the most intimate secrets.

Reviewers must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.