Books Quote by Andre Gide

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

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

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

— Philip Larkin

Bad literature is a form of treason.

— Joseph Brodsky

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

— George Saintsbury

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

“The attention for bad literature is symptomatic: they pretends its the most normal thing in the world to fill an entire newspaper page with…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— Simone Weil

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

literature is the record of our discontent.

— Virginia Woolf