I don't hire any companies or ask any of my friends to write reviews for me on Amazon when I have a book come out so they can drive up my ratings on Amazon. I don't have a publicist.
A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.
I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.
I'm not good at reading reviews and things like that.
I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad.
I get a sick joy out of bad reviews. I don't read good reviews.
The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label of "immigrant literature" after I had read quite a number of reviews (in different countries) involving books written by 'immigrants. '
You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.
I don’t really read reviews… That’s not where my attention goes.
Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.
I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret. "
There is often with restaurant reviews in particular, I think, this kind of impulse to be deferential and bow down to the greatness of the restaurant and the greatness of the chef, and then with great regret to say, "And yet, all is not as it should be in the kingdom," and I didn't want to do any of that.
Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don’t ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.
The scope of our cybersecurity problem is enormous. Our government, our businesses, our trade secrets and our citizens' most sensitive information are all facing constant cyberattacks and reviews by the enemy.
You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.