Books Quote by Evelyn Waugh

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

— Meg Rosoff

“While the consequences are often quite hellish, I am absolutely and perhaps permanently against ignoring books recommended from the heart by very nice people…

— J.D. Salinger

“Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books.”

— Annie Barrows

Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book…

— Jim Trelease

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions…

— George Orwell

Books are a habit-forming drug.

— Agatha Christie

“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”

— Nick Hornby

I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability:…

— John Hodgman

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

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they…

— Mark Twain

“A bad book begins and ends with the words on the pages. A good book gives you the feeling that it began long before…

— R. Lee Smith quoting her mother

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