A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
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.
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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.
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