Quotes About Literature

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

Good authour Good books

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.

If you want to be changed, read a good book.

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.