Book Quality Perspectives

Table of Contents

• Subjectivity of Book Quality
• The Writing and Publishing Process
• Books as a Personal Experience
• Books and Their Influence
• Good vs. Bad Books
• Books and Society
• Other

Subjectivity of Book Quality

No matter how good a book is, it will lead to negativity when being read by evil people. No matter how evil a book is, it will lead to positivity when being read by good people.

There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…

Tell me," Big Angel said. "Did I do anything good in your life?" "You gave me the books." It was instantaneous."Yes. All the books--that was pretty good. I gave you good ones.""And bad ones.""True. But all books are good, man. Imagine no books.

All books are good,' he said...'They weren't bad books,' Phin countered patiently. 'They were books that you didn't enjoy. It's not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a 'good book' for someone.'I nodded. I couldn't fault his logic.

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it,

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

They weren’t bad books,” Phin countered patiently. “They were books that you didn’t enjoy. It’s not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a ‘good book’ for someone.

There’s no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There’s a book that matters to a reader.

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

The Writing and Publishing Process

If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Once you become a known writer, you will not have bad books anymore. You will only have less good books than the good ones.

Good books are never finished but abandoned.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There is no choice in the matter that if you need to write a good book, you also need to have good marketing for it.

We know that the book we will never write will be bad. Even worse will be the one we put off writing. At least the book that has been written exists.

The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer.

As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.

Books as a Personal Experience

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

When you write the truth, a lot of people get mad ... But, hey, a good book is a good book.

No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

I believe that a good book leaves its readers better than they were before.

There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books.

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don’t think they get less good because times change.

Life was too short for bad books, or even good books that you just don’t like.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Books and Their Influence

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.

Only two classes of books have universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Many bad books have had great influence.

In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why their writing is so terrible. These are smart people, after all.

Good vs. Bad Books

A book that is made up of only great sentences is not necessarily a great book.

A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

People don't always want quality. A good book is not always successful and a successful one is not always good.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

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

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

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

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

I really don't like books when characters are just bad or just good.

Books and Society

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

There are a lot of wonderful books out there that aren't marketed properly, and readers who might love them never even know they exist.

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden.

Good books don’t make you think, because the author has already done all of the thinking for you, but a terrible book can really give your brain a workout, because you spend so much time wondering what incredibly dumb thing the author will say next.

There's so many films made out of bad books, and I don't have time for those.

Other

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

I think a good book is a good book forever.I don't think they get less good because times change.

We don't have to stay in a repeating bad story, We can pick up a new book which is better and happier, just by putting the other book down.

A good book is not the same as a successful one.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

A good book is no good with a bad cover

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

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

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came?

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Great books don’t make great movies. There’s too much information in there.

I personally can’t think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil’s policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

People don’t always want quality. A good book is not always successful and a successful one is not always good.

Books can be terrible snobs.

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