Book Quote by Karin Slaughter

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

— Dorothy Parker

I really don't like books when characters are just bad or just good.

— Ellen Ullman

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

— Malcolm Cowley

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad…

— Eleanor Catton

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

— Lev Grossman

I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer…

— Chuck Klosterman

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book.

— Rebecca Serle

When I'm writing, I'm thinking, "Well, this might be a book that I'll always be happy with, and certainly readers will be happy with."…

— John Edgar Wideman

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer?…

— Lev Grossman

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

— Aldous Huxley