Books Quote by Dean Koontz

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

“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

“We have learnt a lesson: words written in books, all of them, are lies. There are no exceptions. Words written on papers are all…

— NisiOisiN

“I credit the practice of law with teaching me how to make readers think one thing is happening when it’s really something else.”

— Elaine Williams Crockett

“The idea that reading is a moral quality has unhappily led many conscientious persons to renounce their innocuous dalliance with light literature for more…

— Edith Wharton

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darnedest things in the margins of their books.”

— Tara Bray Smith

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

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Writing can be learned, but not taught.”

— Robert Heinlein

“writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it,”

— Ralph Keyes

“Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible — time-freed, existential youth…

— Richard Ford

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

— Anthony Burgess