Book Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

— Wendy Wax

“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 person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind…

— G.K. Chesterton

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

— Paul Theroux

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it…

— 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

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there…

— Roy Blount Jr