There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
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.
Books are a finer world within the world.
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.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
Books and people are hard to compare.