Bad Books Quotes

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

Many bad books have had great influence.

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

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

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

Books which are no books.