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| A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's soul |
| Aldous Huxley |
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| A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. |
| Norman Cousins |
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| A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. |
| Carl Sandburg |
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| A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. |
| Mark Twain |
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| A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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| A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.
For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
I could tell you things about Peter Pan,
And the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man! |
| Tom Lehrer |
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| All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, |
| Ernest Hemingway |
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| Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading |
| Jonathan Swift |
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| Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. |
| Mark Twain |
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| Books and marriage go ill together. |
| Moliere |
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| Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing. |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
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