Book Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

— Marianne Moore

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd…

— Laura Marling

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

— Garry Wills

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

— Ann Patchett

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist,…

— Erica Jong

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes…

— Molly Antopol

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

— Jim Shepard

I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I read everything…

— Caroline Thompson

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

— Ann Patchett

I like getting under the skin of the protagonists of every book I read, it makes the whole story so much more personal.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.

— Karin Slaughter

If you like the book, you'll hate the movie.

— Daniel Radcliffe