“All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.”

“Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it. Every writer I know is the same way: you get a hundred good reviews, and one bad, andyou remember only the bad. For years, you go on and fantasize about the reviewer who didn't like your book; you imagine him as a jerk, a wife-beater, a real ogre. And, in the meantime, the reviewer has forgotten all about the whole thing. But, twenty years later, the writer still remembers that one bad review.”

“If I never received a bad review then I wouldn't be a real writer, but I much prefer the good ones”

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. ”

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”

“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.”