Books Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Thereis no such thing as amoral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“The books, always the books. And for themselves, not to become rich or famous like sensible people. Are we not foolish? But it is…

— Ward Moore

“So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— Anthony Burgess

“They will call you immoral if you dare to describe their immorality”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

— Oscar Wilde

“Whoever is wise shall turn from wicked ways.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.”

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

“When the wise falls under the authority of the ignorant, they do not merely ruin them, but they utterly devastate them.”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Books—all books—are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them…

— Andrew Rilstone