Always Quote by Colson Whitehead

“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

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

— Natalie Goldberg

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

You always hope a book's going to be a success. I don't think I've ever written a book thinking, 'This will be bad and…

— Ryan North

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it,

— Pliny the Elder

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

— Oscar Wilde

Many bad books have had great influence.

— Anne Applebaum

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that.

— Micah Perks

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

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

— Hannah More