„I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.“

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Oscar Wilde401

irischer Schriftsteller 1854 - 1900

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„[On book reviewing] I will only turn down a book if I know I won't be able to muster enough interest to read the bloody thing. Or if I realize that I despise the author, and that I'm just going to become hysterical in my dispraise. A couple of times in my life I've disobeyed my own rule, and later regretted it. […] It's a delicate business. All too often, if one writes a favorable notice, it's seen as a product of the old-boy network, and if one dispraises a book, it's seen as envy. Nobody seems able to accept that I review books as a book reviewer, not as a competing novelist. When I review, I'm being as honest as I can. And I'm saying to the reading public — the minuscule segment of the reading public that reads reviews — that this is my judgment.“

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— John Banville Irish writer 1945

John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200 (2009)

„Here's a tip I've never used: I understand you can learn a great deal of girldom by reading Pride and Prejudice, and I own a copy, but I have never read it. I tried. It was given to me by a girl with a little not inside that read: What is in this book is the heart of a woman. I am sure the heart of a woman is pure and lovely, but the first chapter of said heart is hopelessly boring.“

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— Donald Miller, buch Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality

Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

„She read a little of it. I give her review verbatim: "Oh, your book? It's all about those how-wid Wajahs. I didn't understand it."“

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— Rudyard Kipling, buch Plain Tales from the Hills

Wressley of the Foreign Office.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

„Indian reviewers don’t read books. They have two days to produce 800 words. They read the prologue and then skim a few pages, then they read all the other reviews. If the first two are negative, you can be sure they will all be negative. If the first two are good, the rest will be good. It’s that low-level, that pathetic. It takes a kind of confidence for a reviewer to have their own opinion about a book. And a lot of people here just don’t care about literary novels.“

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— Jeet Thayil Indian writer 1959

Jeet Thayil: Confessions of an Indian Opium-Eater

„I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.“

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— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician 1820 - 1894

1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 136.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)

„A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.“

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— Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

„Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.“

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— Conor Oberst American musician 1980

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

„And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside
a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted
to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in
for ever.“

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— Peter Ackroyd English author 1949

Quelle: First Light

„As a rule I never read bad reviews about myself because my best friends invariably tell me about them.“

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— Oscar Levant, buch The Memoirs of an Amnesiac

The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)

„Send me no more reviews of any kind. — I will read no more of evil or good in that line. — Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years.“

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— George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824

Letter to his publisher, John Murray (3 November 1821).

„I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book…. One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.“

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— Anton Chekhov Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860 - 1904

Letter to N.M. Ezhov (March 22, 1893)
Letters

„Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.“

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— Jorge Luis Borges, buch Seven Nights

Quelle: Seven Nights

„Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.“

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— Colette 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi 1873 - 1954

„I don't think I should be getting more attention from mainstream book reviewers. I've never written any mainstream books, and I'm always surprised when the mainstreamers notice me at all.“

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— R. A. Lafferty American writer 1914 - 2002

As quoted in "My interview with R.A. Lafferty", by Tom Jackson, originally published in Lan's Lantern #39 (1991); here in the Sandusky Register (16 January 2015) http://www.sanduskyregister.com/story/201501160010

„Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.“

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— Sören Kierkegaard, buch Stages on Life's Way

Stages on Life's Way, 1845 p. 363-364
1840s, Stages on Life's Way (1845)

„I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.“

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— Heinrich Heine German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic 1797 - 1856

„Books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when you and I are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.“

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— Corrie ten Boom Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892 - 1983

Quelle: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

„When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.“

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— Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

Quelle: I Capture the Castle

„I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.“

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— Alberto Manguel writer 1948

Quelle: The Library at Night

„Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.“

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— Judy Blume American children's writer 1938

„I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.“

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