“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde
“The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything”
Walter Bagehot
“They would not be smart enough to pour piss out of their boots, if the instructions were written on the sole”
Garrison Keillor
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”
Toni Morrison
“A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.”
Carl Van Doren
“Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.”
Bible
“Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day”
Chamfort