Asks Quote by Lawrence Clark Powell

I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my…

— Jane Yolen

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or…

— Christopher Morley

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

“All books are good,’ he said. ‘That’s not true,’ I said. ‘I’ve read some really bad books.’ I was thinking specifically of Anne of…

— Lisa Jewell

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I think the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is less about “Did it really happen or was it made up?” than it is about…

— Geoff Dyer

I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I…

— George Burns

We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid