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If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.

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

I'm not one to get bad reviews.

I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.

And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

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

The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one.