Books Quote by William Dean Howells

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

— Jo Walton

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

— Helene Hanff

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

— Anonymous

Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the…

— Orhan Pamuk

All my books center around death in some way.

— Adam Silvera

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

— Norman Mailer

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

— Terry Tempest Williams

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves,…

— Franz Kafka

“As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless”

— Victor Hugo

“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells…

— Victor Hugo

“As long as social damnation exists, through law and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilization and muddying the a destiny that…

— Victor Hugo

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

— Matthew Specktor