Book Judgment Quotes

I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is not a bad thing.

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

I feel that form determines how readers read a book and how they judge it.

At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.

Covers, so many covers, so many different, delectable pictures, and although, metaphorically speaking, it is the thing I hate most, when it comes to literature I always judge books by their covers. First the cover will catch my eye, then I read the back of the book, and then finally the first page.