Bad Books Quotes
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Bad Books Quotes & Sayings
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It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
— William, Saroyan
A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.
— Joseph Roth
There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
— Anatole France
Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books.
— Annie Barrows
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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
— Mark Twain
In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero's.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
— Christopher Hampton
We don't lock up books in this house," Philippe said, "only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior.
— Deborah Harkness
People don't really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.
— Mark Twain
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
— Gore Vidal
Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it
— William Meikle
There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters
— Jon Courtenay Grimwood
In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.
— Steve Aylett
all good books are bad!
— Elinor Ostrom
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. — Carlos Fuentes
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
— Benjamin Disraeli
This was something that happened in bad horror movies, and books written by people from Maine.
— Chris Philbrook
Books took away the pain and disappointment, they always did. Books closed bad doors and opened good ones.
— Kathryn Harvey
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
— Mark Haddon
Besides....... who wants a boy? The only boys in our books are the little baby ones the man hero puts inside the heroine.
— Alexa Riley
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
— Anthony Minghella
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
— Evelyn Waugh
Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad.
— Jenny Colgan
I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.
— Warren Ellis
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
— Julien Green
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
— Stephen King
Life is too short to read bad books.
— James Joyce
Books aren't eggs, you know. Simply because a book has aged a bit doesn't mean it's gone bad.
— Nina George
Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.
— Remy De Gourmont
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
— Tom Waits
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
— Roger Ebert
It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.
— Frederick Locker-Lampson
The biggest mistake in puppy training, which is also the most common one, is punishing the dog for bad behavior.
— Vivaco Books
Anyone who tells you her life is like a book has either been reading some bad books or is not being straight with you or herself about her life.
— M.J. Andersen
If a book isn't at least somewhat polarizing, it didn't say anything of value.[Blog entry - November 1, 2014] — Ilona Andrews
I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.
— Andrew VanWyngarden
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
— Charles Caleb Colton
They were daughters of the sky. Luck belonged to them - never bad, often good, sometimes hard.
— C.J. Milbrandt
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Good News: I'm rich! Bad News: Too much to list!
— Minecrafty Family Books
I don't believe in bad books. There's either not enough editing, imagination, or explanations. Triple-check everything.
— B.A. Gabrielle
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— Maggie Carpenter
Keep moving. Don't get bogged down. Don't think about the bad stuff. Smile and joke even when you don't feel like it.
— Rick Riordan
Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.
— Dan Groat
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839] — Edgar Allan Poe
I keep three kinds of books: those I want to read, those I want to reread, and those I want to reopen just to confirm how bad they are.
— Sarah Manguso
Every time I have a bad day, I'll just find a corner, bring out my book and then everything starts to feel better.
— Wency June Z. Libot
I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
— Charlize Theron
We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.
— Hannah More
There are only two kinds of books good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time. — Edward Abbey
Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.
— Dennis Lehane
Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.
— Michael Kruger
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
— G.K. Chesterton
All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.
— Monique Roffey
Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end. — Pseudonymous Bosch
Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma.
— Kelly Armstrong
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
— Scott Westerfeld
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored
— Vikram Seth
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
— Hugo Chavez
Our desire for knowledge is not bad but our failure to believe what God said is deadly.
— Jonah Books
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Suddenly she longed for the comfort of books around her. No matter how bad she felt, a library could always make her feel better.
— Alexandra Sokoloff
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
— George Orwell
Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours; there is no life without them.
— Herman Wouk
Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.
— Kira Hawke
I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.
— William Hazlitt
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.
— Deborah Moggach
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
— Gunter Grass
If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?
— Jacques Maritain
I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.
— Daniel T. O'Hara