Books Quote by George Saintsbury

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

— Stephen Ambrose

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to…

— Robert Caro

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not…

— Wole Soyinka

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

— Italo Calvino

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

— Andre Gide