I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to them, I'm always sort of floored by what the bad ones say.

I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad.

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'.

[Leaves of Grass is] monstrous because it pretends to persuade the soul while it slights the intellect; because it pretends to gratify the feelings while it outrages the taste.