“ I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life. ”
- Oprah Winfrey- Copy
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“ There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book. ”
- Christopher Lehmann Haupt- Copy
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“ The left and the right can do the same thing. The Net can do the same thing for racists as it did for the Dean campaign. Treating your readers not as readers but as participants is a really good way of creating community and getting supporters. ”
- David Weinberger- Copy
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“ I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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“ Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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“ Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? ”
- Adlai Stevenson- Copy
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“ A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. ”
- Friedrich von Schlegel- Copy
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“ Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing. ”
- Harold Clurman- Copy
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“ Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
- 257
“ Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. ”
- Lenny Bruce- Copy
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“ Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief becomes despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce to the authoritative statement of the reviewer. ”
- R. H. Hutton- Copy
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“ Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better. ”
- Garry Trudeau- Copy
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