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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.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

After each book, I get panicky. I don't love the reviews. I don't like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I'd have got the hang of it.

I'm very troubled when editors oblige their film critics to read the novel before they see the film. Reading the book right before you see the film will almost certainly ruin the film for you.

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.

I don't read reviews.

I don't really read reviews... That's not where my attention goes.

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