C.W. Gortner quote: "Even a bad review is still a review. It means someone cared enough to take the time to say: Hey, this sucks. Don’t bother. Buy a DVD instead...Yes, someone cared. And isn’t that what every writer dreams of?...So, how did I deal with bad reviews? How else? I cry. I get mad. I pretend not to care. Then I pour myself a glass of wine and call a friend to complain."

A bad review – or several— is, of course, one of the unavoidable pitfalls of being published.Som...
C.W. GORTNER

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE

Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER

Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS

…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS

Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS

There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO

Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer un...
W. G. SEBALD

? Reviews are for readers AND authors. It’s a good way of learning from what people think about th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES

If you have anything bad to say to me, Say it to someone else cause I don't care, I quite like mysel...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON

There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE

The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE

Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE

It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE

A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE

This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS

And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS

And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS

You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS

The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS

…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS

For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS

In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS

How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY

If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
GARETH GATES

As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE

It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI

When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C.

On a hot day, I like to put a bottle of red in the fridge to chill. Then I take it out; open it up, ...
ANTHONY T.HINCKS

Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW

You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
LISA KLEYPAS

If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like ...
JOHN IRVING

Growing up I had a horrible speech impediment. I stuttered to where I couldn't even talk in class. I...
BO JACKSON

The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER

I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me -...
CATE TIERNAN

To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA

A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE

No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE

Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE

Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY

We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book rea...
W.H. AUDEN

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
DANIELLE STEEL

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it
DANIELLE STEEL

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER

The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE

She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pret...
JODI PICOULT

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
CARSON MCCULLERS

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS

I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS

Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that the...
DEYTH BANGER

I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget...
CASSANDRA CLARE

Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS

Someone told me never cry in front of a man he will think u are weak. If I see someone cry & I start...
NICNICLOUISIANA

What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are s...
KATE THOMPSON

To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ...
DEYTH BANGER

A while ago?” Anaxantis asked. “Yes, he raped me a while ago. Exactly nine months and two days a...
ANDREW ASHLING

لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت...
مليكة مستظرف

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have ...
JOEL OSTEEN

How can I take away somebody who means the world to someone else? Even if she is my enemy.
SARAH J. MAAS

I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I w...
EMERAUDE TOUBIA

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA

You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

I just think that if someone has a problem with me, well it’s their problem to deal with. Why shou...
SUZANNE WRIGHT

I absolutely want and prize and love and revere every single media review I get, but if I got 50 rev...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels,...
C. JOYBELL C.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN

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