Book Quote by Cecily von Ziegesar

I really don't like books when characters are just bad or just good.

— Ellen Ullman

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

— Beverly Cleary

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good…

— Stephen King

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

— Bruce Feiler

I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then…

— Brian Selznick

Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate…

— Karen Traviss

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.…

— John le Carre

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don't even hate books anymore.

— Leonard Cohen

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

— Mark Haddon

Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just…

— Anna Todd