The New York Review Of Books Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

John Podhoretz

#3. 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

#4. The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

Joyce Carol Oates

#5. If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

Anna Quindlen

#6. 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

#7. In 1986, I read a remarkable article by Israel Rosenfield in The New York Review of Books in which he discussed the revolutionary work and views of Gerald M. Edelman. Edelman was nothing if not bold. We are at the beginning of

Oliver Sacks

#8. Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

John Updike

#9. My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'

Chris Hayes

#10. Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as ... the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

Woody Allen

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

Lorin Stein

#12. The biggest cause of divorse in my opinion is marriage

Paul V. Walters

#13. Here is Lady Winchilsea, for example, I thought, taking down her poems. She was born in the year 1661; she was noble both by birth and by marriage; she was childless; she wrote poetry, and one has only to open her poetry to find her bursting out in indignation against the position of women:

Virginia Woolf

#14. Sunsets require sunshine ["Surveillance: Out of the Shadows," New York Review of Books, June 2, 2015].

David Cole

#15. I breathed and thanked something that was not exactly God, something that was still here. I could almost imagine that it was still before when we were young and many things still lived.

Peter Heller

#16. In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

Sandra Bernhard

#17. We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

Teresa Of Avila

#18. 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

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

James Purdy

#20. It was the truth. He was a friend, albeit one she would cut out her heart for.

Marissa Meyer

#21. Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#22. The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.

Freeman Dyson

#23. And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

Tobias Smollett

#24. I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Michael J. Fox

#25. If you don't score you are not going to win a match.

Bobby Robson

#26. The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

Johannes Stark