That is, I fancy, the true doctrine on the subject of Tales of Terror and such things, which unless a man of letters do well and truly believe, without doubt he will end by blowing...

The American critic Dale Peck, author of Hatchet Jobs (2004), argues that reviewing finds its true character in critical GBH such as Fischer’s [review of Martin Amis’s Yellow Dog]. It represents a return to the...

I don’t read reviews.

what do you want for nothing?” The buyer does not waive his right to express his opinion.”[Thick Skin and Bad Reviews, Blog post, June 26, 2013]

…Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times… …Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on… Quote on the Title Page of “Love TORN Asunder

The only time I’ve ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, The Heather Blazing. He said that, together with the previous novel,...

This book is shit and don’t read it” if they want. If they want to write a review entirely about how much they hate the cover, they can if they want. If they want to...

The only advice … that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Article 191. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of...

World’s worst writer.” If you’re wondering why I rate all my work one star, it’s because the rating system doesn’t have a zero star option, or better yet, go into negative numbers.

Michael Caine should have the last word on the reviews: ‘What about those reviews then?”I don’t read them.”Don’t read them? You wrote them didn’t you?

NO reader has ANY obligation to an author, whether it be to leave a review or to write a “constructive” one. I put out a product. You are consumers of that product. Since when does...

Reviewing a book written by someone you’re living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you...

I don’t read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you’ve got to believe the bad things, too.

Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.

problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.6. You may also be twelve.7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible...

Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works,...

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

An elegantly crafted novel, “The Reluctant First Lady” clearly documents author Venita Ellick as an exceptionally accomplished writer able to skillfully weave memorable characters into a riveting story line from beginning to end. As engaging...

Have you ever gotten a bad review, Master Huud?””Hundreds of them.””Do they hurt?””Of course. But you get over it. Critics are just people, lad. They’re entitled to their opinions. They’re not the enemy.””Who is the...

My policy is to not read any reviews.

If you want to write a negative review, don’t tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken.”[on Twitter, July 17, 2012]

I’m not one of those people who says, ‘I never read reviews,’ because I don’t believe those people.

I don’t read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I’m 80.

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: ‘My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, “The Cookiepants Hypotenuse.”‘ Or else they get...

Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can...

I am deliriously in love with GIF reviews. That is all.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Envy isn’t always green; it’s often black and white!” (On book reviews – from an article written in 2013)

you may be right. But, no. It would seem as if I were lending support to what ought never to have been published in the first place.

[Blog post, March 10, 2014]

I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

For every minute that a book entertains you, the author of that book invested several minutes of their lives. Please show your appreciation by taking a minute out of your life to leave us a...

… the shelf life of my own opinion is somewhere between 3 seconds to 3 months, especially when it is about life and its meaning! 🙂 … But my recorded opinions definitely reflect my growing...

Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback.

Now in sober truth there is a magnificent idea in these monsters of the Apocalypse. It is, I suppose, the idea that beings really more beautiful or more universal than we are might appear to...

For obvious reasons, the relationship between novelists, the reviewing establishment and critics in general is chronically, and often acutely, edgy. A kind of low-intensity warfare prevails, with outbreaks of savagery. It is partly an ownership...

I just don’t read reviews, because it can really hurt you.