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Letter "R" » reviewing
«Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.»
«I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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«From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
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Biochemist,
Writer)
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About:
Writers
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«Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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Author,
Writer)
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About:
Books
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«Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews»
«I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so»
«Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!'»
«The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.»
Author: William Faulkner
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Novelist,
Writer)
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About:
Criticism,
Writers,
Writing
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Keywords:
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«Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.»
Author: George Orwell
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Essayist,
Novelist)
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«Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.»