Book Quote by Robert Musil

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

— George Orwell

Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.

— Lionel Shriver

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it…

— James Russell Lowell

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

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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good…

— Stephen King

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

— Norton Juster

A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way,…

— Walter Pater

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the…

— Anonymous

The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to…

— Nick Hornby

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come…

— Julie Schumacher