Steve Earle Quotes

I don't generally read reviews.

I often don't read reviews.

I don't read reviews.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

I don't delve too deep into reviews.

I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

Everyone asks, 'What's your favorite trend?' And I never answer that.

I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

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

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity.

I don't read reviews, but I do get feedback from my peers and people I know, like other actors and directors and producers.

Reviews are extremely subjective, but I have respect for them.

I don't read reviews anymore.

Do I read her books? Of course.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.