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 armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: writing literary-criticism bad-reviews critics reviewers
Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.
Charlotte BrontëMaking judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.
Joan DidionStichwörter: critic criticism film movie reviewers
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
James Russell LowellStichwörter: writing nature reviewers review
[P]ersonally, I know I’d prefer to read an honest review by someone who has no reason to lie, than a book reviewer who has an employer and a publishing house to keep happy.
Catherine Ryan HowardStichwörter: reviews reviewers bloggers
Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.
Stacia KaneStichwörter: authors reviews reviewers
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: honesty writing integrity creative-process self-expression reviewers selling-out pandering
I was going to suggest some hard-won guidelines for responsible reviewing. For instance: First, as in Hippocrates, do no harm. Second, never stoop to score a point or bite an ankle. Third, always understand that in this symbiosis, you are the parasite. Fourth, look with an open heart and mind at every different kind of book with every change of emotional weather because we are reading for our lives and that could be love gone out the window or a horseman on the roof. Fifth, use theory only as a periscope or a trampoline, never a panopticon, a crib sheet or a license to kill. Sixth, let a hundred Harolds Bloom.
John LeonardStichwörter: reviews reviewers
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyStichwörter: critics reviewers
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