Books Quote by Walter Bagehot

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who 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

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

— Ashleigh Brilliant

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

— Stewart O'Nan

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

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

— Natalie Goldberg

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

— Pliny the Elder

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

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

— Julian Barnes