Reviewer Bias Quotes

I think testing films are a great tool. And I think showing them to people that you value their opinion is important, but once you give over to what reviewers think, that's tricky. You don't know what their agenda is; it's so subjective. You have got to make sure you are asking someone's opinion who you know.

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

I hate reading reviews.

Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

Is it ever worthwhile to buy a review? Not in my opinion. With independent paid review services, quality can be a problem; plus, there are plenty of non-professional book review venues out there that will review for free.

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently created by the music, yet the reviewers seem unaware that their emotions and their nervous reactions to the films have been affected by the scoring. This is a serious flaw. Any film reviewer owes it to himself, and the public, to take every element of the film into account.

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

In my first story, 'Mr. Mysterious & Company'... I was asked to take out some of the humor because editors were afraid reviewers would dismiss the book as a joke. Today, humor is enjoyed and no longer regarded as literary brummagem.

I don't take reviews very seriously, but in their totality I think they are representative of how the audience feels, and of what their reaction is. There's always one guy who doesn't get it.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

I sometimes think many reviewers write the reviews of my films even before they see them.

If you make a good show, you tend to get good reviews. I don't believe it is as arbitrary as some people tend to think, which artists do to protect themselves against bad reviews.

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a reviewer whose tastes match your own.

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.