Banned books Quote by Clyde Brion Davis

“There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.”

— Anthony Burgess

“Thereis no such thing as amoral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege,…

— Charles Lamb

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti

“Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters, defilers, the…

— Virginia Woolf

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. . . . If it is a good book…

— Wendy Wax

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

— George Sand

“Thinking about all the authors I love who wrote flawed books. You authors are such an enigma to me. Why do I love you…

— Love The Stacks Bookstore