Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There's so many films made out of bad books, and I don't have time for those. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
“I read a lot of bad books- books so bad that they aren't even published,which is quite a feat, when you consider… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“All books are good,’ he said. ‘That’s not true,’ I said. ‘I’ve read some really bad books.’ I was thinking specifically of… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader. — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“we are bad books about our favorite topics. I am my dumbest dollar & I am what is left when it learns.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Anyone who tells you her life is like a book has either been reading some bad books or is not being straight… — M.J. Andersen Copy Share Image
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about. — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored — Anonymous Copy Share Image
