Book Quote by Oscar Wilde

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Thereis no such thing as amoral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.”

— Anthony Burgess

“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be…

— Clyde Brion Davis

“I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and…

— Anthony Burgess

“They damned the books I read and the things I thought by calling them immoral; later the fashion changed, and they damned things by…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters, defilers, the…

— Virginia Woolf

“There are no bad books, just a bad time for that book.”

— Meigz

“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling: the shock…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. . . . If it is a good book…

— Wendy Wax

“We can live in a society founded on the book and yet not read, or we can live in a society where the book…

— Alberto Manguel