Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.
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.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
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.
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.
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.
Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
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