Variant: There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Yet with every allowance, one feels it difficult to see how any mortal ever could consider this Koran as a Book written in Heaven, too good for the Earth; as a well-written book, or indeed as a book at all; and not a bewildered rhapsody; written, so far as writing goes, as badly as almost any book ever was!”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet
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Theodore Dalrymple
(1949) English doctor and writer
Trash, Violence, and Versace: But Is It Art? http://www.city-journal.org/html/8_1_urbanities-trash.html (Winter 1998).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)
“The Bible is most dangerous book ever written on earth, keep it under lock and key.”
George Bernard Shaw
(1856–1950) Irish playwright
From Why You Should Never be a Christian (1987) by Ishaq 'Kunle Sanni and Dawood Ayodele Amoo.
Misattributed
“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
Variant: [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Source: Sense and Sensibility
Benjamin Fish Austin
(1850–1933) Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spiritualist
Sermon (1899)
Richard Evelyn Byrd
(1888–1957) Medal of Honor recipient and United States Navy officer
Preface
Alone (1938)
Context: This book is the account of a personal experience — so personal that for four years I could not bring myself to write it. It is different from anything else I have ever written. My other books have been factual, impersonal narratives of my expeditions and flights. This book, on the other hand, is the story of an experience which was in considerable part subjective. I very nearly died before it was over.
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
Toni Morrison
(1931–2019) American writer