New York Times Review Quotes

#1. I have one rave 'New York Times' review framed next to a flop 'Los Angeles Times' review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.

Bruce Vilanch

#2. Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.

James Patterson

#3. The New York Times Review of Books is toilet paper. Used.

James Purdy

#4. The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are not relevant to us." So you have to fight their attempt to destroy you, fight to continue feeling.

James Purdy

#5. Nowadays, even The New York Times Book Review is afraid to say when a popular book is crap.

Lorin Stein

#6. Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

Mark Hoppus

#7. So many Jonathans. A plague of literary Jonathans. If you read only the New York Times Book Review, you'd think it was the most common male name in America. Synonymous with talent, greatness. Ambition, vitality.

Jonathan Franzen

#8. Mind is a dark fathomless ocean, and every time I sink into it, this world fades, replaced by one far more terrible and beautiful in which I will happily drown. - New York Times Book Review

Neil Gaiman

#9. I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.

Malcolm David Kelley

#10. The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

Edmund White

#11. As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

Kevin Bacon

#12. If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

Richard John Neuhaus

#13. Even ivory towers need central heating.

Breyten Breytenbach

#14. Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it

Ally Condie

#15. My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.

Carrie Coon

#16. If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.

Ben Feldman

#17. Happiness one last chance to happen?

Jerry Spinelli

#18. Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore.

Amanda Peet

#19. Eighty percent of the reviewers and authors of reviewed books in the New York Review of Books in 2013 were men, as were almost 80 percent of the 'notable deaths' reported in the New York Times in 2012.

Laura Bates

#20. You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#21. I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the most successful thing that's ever been put onstage.

Norbert Leo Butz

#22. Mr. Lehrer's muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.

The New York Times

#23. Libraries were full of ideas - perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

Sarah J. Maas

#24. It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

Mel Torme

#25. The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.

Alexander Lowen