Bad Book

Famous quotes containing the words bad book, bad and/or book:

“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”
—Günther Grass (b.1927)

“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it—especially in art.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrification of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion’s little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.”
—Caroline Lejeune (1897–1973)