A Quote by Nick Hornby

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

Nick Hornby

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Nick Hornby
English - Writer
Born: April 17, 1957

Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.

Stephen Marche

The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it’s worse than zero, because it represents territory you’re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you’ll abandon your book.

Timothy Hallinan

Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Oscar Wilde

I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

Moby

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

Salman Rushdie

I love deliberately badly written books.

Richard Prince

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.

Claire Tomalin

I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.

Richard Prince

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

P.B. Kerr

I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.