Contempt Quote by Marianne Moore

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

— Garry Wills

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no…

— Anonymous

It's terrible for people when they really love a book and there's an adaptation and they don't like it, because it's almost like you…

— Killian Scott

“I often have the feeling that even at the best of times literary criticism is fraudulent, since in the absence of any accepted standards…

— George Orwell

I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the…

— Caroline B. Cooney

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

— Lev Grossman

I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist about that.…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily…

— Lynn Coady

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

— Ann Patchett

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

— Rick Moody

If you like the book, you'll hate the movie.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

— Dennis Lehane