Books Quote by Walter Bagehot

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has…

— Walter Bagehot

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world…

— Rachel Kushner

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

— Oscar Wilde

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

— Stewart O'Nan

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it,

— Pliny the Elder

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

— Natalie Goldberg

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

— Gore Vidal

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good…

— Patrick deWitt

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

— T. S. Eliot