Books Quote by Jacques-Louis David

“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been…

— Walter Moers

“The effectiveness of an author turns chiefly upon his getting the reputation that he should be read. But by practicing various arts, by the…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants…

— Franz Kafka

“Sometimes the writer has to learn the hard way of creating a bad work to become a best-seller yet doesn't surrender to the negative…

— Millicent Ashby

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human experience, when…

— Tom Waits

“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against the most…

— Minae Mizumura

“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications; he finds…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong…

— John Gardner

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White