Bad Book

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

    “A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    “Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;Mthey are the life, the soul of reading!—take them out of this book, for instance,—you might as well take the book along with them;Mone cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer;Mhe steps forth like a bridegroom,—bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)