Book Review – Quotes

My generation was not

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. Erica Jong

I started to write

I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I’d read before all memory of them vanished. Debra Hamel

My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so much, I could hardly remember any of it. People would ask me what good books I’d read recently, or what I thought of a particular book, and my mind would go … Read more

I’m never a fan

I’m never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile. Dave Eggers

I began by doing

I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry. Conrad Aiken

When someone writes a

When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They’re writers, they’re critics, and they’re writing about a book about a writer who’s a critic. So I think it’s really hard for people to distance themselves from what they’re criticizing. Chuck Klosterman

The people who review

The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They’re writers, they’re critics, and they’re writing about a book about a writer who’s a critic. So I think it’s … Read more

A book reviewer is

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher’s circus. Austin O’Malley

If I like a

If I like a book, I tend to read the author’s entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews. Randa Abdel-Fattah