Bad Books Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Bad Books

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

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

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. — Mark Twain

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

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. — Moses Hadas

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

All the creativity books in the world aren't going to help you if you're unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas. — Seth Godin

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

Too bad you got so bogged down in books. You've got the spirit of a warrior. — Richelle Mead

Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read. — J.C. Ryle

a proof that good books, no more than good men, do always survive the bad. — Henry Fielding

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

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood. — Steve Schirripa

People are dying and my generation just does not care. Including me. But I want to care. I really want to. I want to care so bad. — Charles Yu

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault. — C.S. Lewis

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

if there are books perhaps it won't be all that bad. — Jo Walton

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

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good. — Leo Tolstoy

If a book isn't at least somewhat polarizing, it didn't say anything of value.
[Blog entry - November 1, 2014] — Ilona Andrews

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books. — John Green

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think. — Andrew VanWyngarden

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. — Voltaire

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

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels. — Maj Sjowall

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

Today I am revealing the exciting new book by Author Maggie Carpenter. Stay tuned, because it will be on here soon! — Maggie Carpenter

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good. — Pliny

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 good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. — Norton Juster

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

The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and pre-coffee. — Kelly Moran

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

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. — Oscar Wilde

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

He was always eating things of hers. Clothing, books, family heirlooms. — Kellyn Roth

Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma. — Kelly Armstrong

The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?) — Edward Abbey

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

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed. — Mark Haddon

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

Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that. — Walter Moers

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored — Vikram Seth

No matter how bad your past is, you still don't want it erased. — Paul Aertker

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

There are no bad books.
Reading is reading and the mind will benefit from the exercise regardless of the content. — Kade Cook

Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours; there is no life without them. — Herman Wouk

Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad. — Corey Stoll

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

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books. — David Frum

There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others ... — Chris Geiger

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.
American novels, answered Lord Henry. — Oscar Wilde

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