{"quotes":[{"text":"We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["amwriting","aphorism","aphorisms","book-club","book-review","book-reviews","books","bored","boredom","ignorance","ignorant","literature","reading","review","reviews","subjective","subjectivity","writers","writing"],"id":3237,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Envy isn’t always green; it’s often black and white!' (On book reviews - from an article written in 2013).","author":"Eric J. Gates","tags":["bad","envy","reviews"],"id":21210,"author_id":"Eric+J.+Gates"},{"text":"Imagine America as one house on a suburban lane. Years before he became a Jehovah's Witness, Prince knocked on America's door through his music. He came to the door holding a guitar and an umbrella while concealing a Bible. He flirted his way inside the door and told us he had a dirty mind and was controversial, and then he sat down in the living room on the good couch. And, when America's guard was down, because we thought we were having a conversation about sex, Prince eased out his Bible and said, 'Let me also tell you about my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.","author":"Touré","tags":["biography","critique","music","pop-culture","prince","reviews"],"id":42671,"author_id":"Tour%C3%A9"},{"text":"I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. I’m fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on her short list of “World’s worst writers.” The list couldn’t get any shorter, because I’m the only name on it. I should tell her to stop calling it a list, and change the title to “World’s worst writer.” If you’re wondering why I rate all my work one star, it’s because the rating system doesn’t have a zero star option, or better yet, go into negative numbers.","author":"Orafoura","tags":["biography","books","humor","list","rating","ratings","readers","review","reviews","self-depreciation","stars","world-s-worst-writer","writers"],"id":60448,"author_id":"Orafoura"},{"text":"This is a forum for readers. Authors walk these halls at their own risk. I’ve been to the Coliseum in Rome. GR is just that. Books are gladiators. Readers are ravenous citizens awaiting their next bite of entertainment, all Caesars with thumbs readied for judgement. Even champions fall prey to sword now and then. And you know what they say about the pen and the sword…the analogy is a bit muddled, but it’s in there somewhere.","author":"Willow Madison","tags":["-on-","free-speech","gladiators","goodreads","pen-and-sword","readership","reviews","writers-on-writing"],"id":89871,"author_id":"Willow+Madison"},{"text":"The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.","author":"Richard Brinsley Sheridan","tags":["journalism","newspapers","reviews"],"id":95061,"author_id":"Richard+Brinsley+Sheridan"},{"text":"For obvious reasons, the relationship between novelists, the reviewing establishment and critics in general is chronically, and often acutely, edgy. A kind of low-intensity warfare prevails, with outbreaks of savagery. It is partly an ownership issue. Who, other than its creator, is to say what a work of fiction means or is worth? It can take years to write a novel and only a few hours for a critic, or a reviewer rushing for a tight deadline, to trash it.","author":"John Sutherland","tags":["critic","criticism","literary-criticism","reviews","writing"],"id":98214,"author_id":"John+Sutherland"},{"text":"The worst reviews, by my mind, are those from individuals who enjoy entertaining themselves by writing something bad about books they actually never read, which is as clear as day from what they’re saying. It’s even more puzzling for an author to check some of these “honest” reviewers’ pages and see that they created their profile with one goal in mind; to post you a bad review, as there’s nothing else they wanted to rate.","author":"Sahara Sanders","tags":["reviews","reviews-i-like","writers-life","writers"],"id":105908,"author_id":"Sahara+Sanders"},{"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":"For every minute that a book entertains you, the author of that book invested several minutes of their lives. Please show your appreciation by taking a minute out of your life to leave us a review. It not only means a lot to us to know you enjoyed our work, it inspires us to write more! Thank you!","author":"David SterlingA. Sterling","tags":["inspirational","readers","reviews"],"id":119201,"author_id":"David+SterlingA.+Sterling"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}