I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e. g. , my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!
I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.
I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.
But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.
No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.
Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.
I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.
People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy. ' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.
I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.
I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.
I try my hardest not to read reviews.
I don’t really read reviews… That’s not where my attention goes.
People see your reviews sometimes, and it's so good that they think I wrote it. And I'm like, "OK, yeah, I wrote it. And I own the company that put it out. "
I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.
Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.
I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.
If I get a bad review, I dont take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.