Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.
As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.
Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.
When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.
Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel.
Thank you Bjork Peterson for a wonderful review of my new book "Why We Love Serial Killers" @readingghost
The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.
I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to them, I'm always sort of floored by what the bad ones say.
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it
I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.
What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that review. It's that the work is there, and you can walk into many bookshops throughout the world and buy it.
I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand
Some days are better than other days A good day is getting 10 royalties and 10 great reviews
