Book Quote by Wendy Wax

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there…

— Roy Blount Jr

“As long as a reader hasn't willingly put down his book, he is a potentially dangerous individual.”

— Anonymous

“Great books can be ruined by bad writers.”

— Travis Simmons

“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

“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

“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind…

— G.K. Chesterton

“She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save…

— Robertson Davies

“There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…”

— Chris Geiger

“Good books should be an overwhelming assault upon the personality.”

— Steffan Piper

“All books are good,’ he said. ‘That’s not true,’ I said. ‘I’ve read some really bad books.’ I was thinking specifically of Anne of…

— Lisa Jewell