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A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.


Veronica Rossi


#ficbookreviews-fave #life #dreams

(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.


Zadie Smith


#literary-reviews #writing #literary-criticism

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.


Anthony Doerr


#boston #give #globe #i #i write

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.


Laurence Housman


#also #appreciation #audiences #enabled #even

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.


Hayao Miyazaki


#interested #lot #never #not interested #reactions

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.


Pola Negri


#box #box office #course #excellent #exceptions

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.


Manuel Puig


#book #erred #helped #interpretations #me

Nearly every writer writes a book with a great amount of attention and intention and hopes and dreams. And it's important to take that effort seriously and to recognize that a book may have taken ten years of a writer's life, that the writer has put heart and soul into it. And it behooves us, as book-review-editors, to treat those books with the care and attention they deserve, and to give the writer that respect." Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review editor, in a Poets & Writer's interview (something for all reviewers to think about)


Madeline Sharples


#pamela-paul #poets-writers #dreams

An oxymoronic combination of the tough and tender, [Of Mice and Men] will appeal to sentimental cynics, cynical sentimentalists...Readers less easily thrown off their trolley will still prefer Hans Andersen. [Time 1937]


Time-Life-Books


#men

At a conservative estimate, one million dollars will be spent by American readers for this book [For Whom the Bell Tolls]. They will get for their money 34 pages of permanent value. These 34 pages tell of a massacre happening in a little Spanish town in the early days of the Civil War...Mr. Hemingway: please publish the massacre scene separately, and then forget For Whom the Bell Tolls; please leave stories of the Spanish Civil War to Malraux...


Commonweal


#money






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