Bad Books Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the… — Stephen Vizinczey
If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink… — Ludwig von Mises
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 lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about. — Joseph Roth
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. — Norton Juster
Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition. — Walker Percy
I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a singleâ€”and singularâ€”piece… — Joseph Epstein
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
I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames,… — Roger Angell
There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women. — Anatole France
I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there are… — Jane Kenyon
For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case,… — Mordecai Richler
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false… — George Orwell
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… — John Green
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are… — Patricia Briggs
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies. — Anthony Minghella
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. — Christopher Hampton
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
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred. — Gunter Grass

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