Bad Quote by Jenny Mollen

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

— Maxim Gorky

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

— Rachel Gibson

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it,

— Pliny the Elder

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

— Anonymous

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

— Thomas Carlyle

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Many bad books have had great influence.

— Anne Applebaum

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its…

— Elena Ferrante

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

— Nicholas Mosley

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

— Zane Grey

I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

— Margaret Atwood

“A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees…

— Azar Nafisi