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A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

— Bjorn Lomborg

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✓Similar Perspectives

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

— Joanne Harris

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

— Marvin Hamlisch

When you get a bad review, you hate the writer. It's very painful; whoever says the opposite lies. It's humiliating. Sometimes it comes from an honest place, but most times, it comes from a desire to trash someone.

— Thomas Vinterberg

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

— Anish Kapoor

When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.

— Scott McCloud

I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.

— Bonnie Langford

✗Opposing Perspectives

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

— John Banville

I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.

— Nell Freudenberger

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

— Gareth Gates

As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.

— Christopher Moore