Books Quote by Andre Gide

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

— Andre Gide

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's soul

— Aldous Huxley

Bad literature is a form of treason.

— Joseph Brodsky

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

— Simone Weil

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

— Aldous Huxley

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

— Andre Gide

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

— George Saintsbury

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

— Walter Moers

“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind…

— G.K. Chesterton

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was…

— C. S. Lewis

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald