[...] You mustn't let yourself be led astray by reporters. In such cases they seldom agree with the public, which is at least always disinterested. What sort of fellows these Dresden scribblers are, I see further in a thing of C. Bank's which has been sent to me. It absolutely disgusts and sickens me to look at such stuff, even held at arm's-length. You must not on any account worry about this sort of thing, and never read it. I for my part won't read what is written in my favour. Good intelligent performances—that and nothing else pleases me. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 425