Book Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“All books are good,’ he said. ‘That’s not true,’ I said. ‘I’ve read some really bad books.’ I was thinking specifically of Anne of…

— Lisa Jewell

Many bad books have had great influence.

— Anne Applebaum

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the…

— Anonymous

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

— Remy de Gourmont

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach