Books Quote by Bill James

“That said, Fatal Vision does have a major virtue. McGinniss is genuinely obsessed with his story … with that story. That’s the flaw of…

— Bill James

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

— Terri Windling

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now…

— Allan Bloom

“The greatest book ever composed was marked at one point unconventional. Also it was marked difficult to read, especially in its original format. Yet…

— Marcus G Monroe

“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses”

— Steve Aylett

“The greatest book ever composed was marked at one point unconventional. Also it was marked difficult to read and comprehend, especially in its original…

— Marcus G Monroe

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

— Terri Windling

“The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.”

— John Gaddis

“Just because you see bad contents in few pages of the book It doesn't mean the whole contents in that book are bad too”

— 69rascal

“A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.”

— Robert Byrne

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes