{"quotes":[{"text":"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["bad-reviews","classic-insult","drama-critic","humor","katharine-hepburn"],"id":7790,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"What are American dry-goods? Asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["american","bad-reviews","books","humor","literary-criticism","novels","sarcasm"],"id":48725,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"? Reviews are for readers AND authors. It’s a good way of learning from what people think about the work. Being it good or bad. A book might as well be hurt by a bad, poorly written review. That’s such a pity. Some people don’t know how to express themselves, and maybe that’s why they are just readers and not writers, others read a book like chewing a cupcake. That’s too bad. If that was not your cup of tea, leave it there, untouched. Don’t go bash the author for that. But if you really hate the book, why bother telling others. It’s your problem after all. You can give constructive opinions but don’t blame the author for your different tastes and views. Also authors shouldn’t comment on reviews, it sounds unprofessional, even silly. Some busy writers don’t even have time to read what other people say about their work. If someone enjoyed your book, or not, that is irrelevant. If you will continue or not to write something else it doesn´t add to the plate.. Besides, why bother commenting on a review, just read it and shut up. Being it good or bad. So my opinions about authors commenting on reviews is just my opinions after all!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["approval-of-others","bad-reviews","book-reviews","books","disappointment","evaluating","evaluation","failure-and-success","fiction-writing","nreading","opinions","rates","readers-and-writers","reading-books","reviewed","reviewers","reviews","writers","writing","writing-books","writing-process"],"id":113479,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.","author":"Oliver Markus","tags":["acne","amateurs","-on-books","bad-reviews","books","conceit","conceitedness","dermatology","funny","funny","humor","humorous","music","pimples","reading","rockstars","self-publishing","writing"],"id":199931,"author_id":"Oliver+Markus"},{"text":"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.","author":"Moses Hadas","tags":["bad-reviews","books","classic-insult","irony","literary-criticism","time"],"id":222870,"author_id":"Moses+Hadas"},{"text":"As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["bad-reviews","critics","literary-criticism","reviewers","writing"],"id":278760,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["aliteracy","bad-reviews","self-publishing","writing"],"id":281645,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.","author":"Sid Ziff","tags":["bad-reviews","book","humorist","misattributed-dorothy-parker","wit"],"id":294241,"author_id":"Sid+Ziff"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}