"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."
- Dorothy Parker
"As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full..."
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody."
- Oscar Wilde
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas
"What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry."
"Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist."
- Oliver Markus
"? Reviews are for readers AND authors. It’s a good way of learning from what people think about the work. Being it good or bad. A book might as well be hurt by a bad, poorly written review. That’s suc..."
- Ana Claudia Antunes
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
- Sid Ziff