Georgina and Michael
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
“Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.”
Variant: A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Source: Point Counter Point
“Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred.”
The Tin Drum Book 1, "Rasputin and the Alphabet" (1959), as translated by Ralph Manheim (1961)
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.”
Source: 84, Charing Cross Road
“One cannot review a bad book without showing off.”
"Reading", p. 11
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), A Cold Day
