Books Quote by George Henry Lewes

“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.”

— Mark Frost

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply…

— George Orwell

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

— Simone Weil

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

— Kate Zambreno

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

— Paul de Man

“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

Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

— Andre Gide

“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

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's soul

— Aldous Huxley

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson