Book Quote by Tom Lehrer

Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

— Tom Lehrer

“Books—even erotic ones … especially erotic ones—are simply reflections of the human soul. Sometimes they're silly and sometimes they're exaggerated, but it's through that…

— C.M. Stunich

“Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent…

— Roberta Gellis

Well, "disgusting" doesn't refer to the books but to the subjective reaction of the person making the complaint. I don't think that anything is…

— William S. Burroughs

“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe…

— Gregory Maguire

It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If…

— Erica Jong

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and…

— Neil Gaiman

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not…

— Mary MacLane

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

— Jay Asher

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

— Walt Whitman

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the…

— Anne Bronte

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche