A Quote by Evelyn Waugh

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

Evelyn Waugh

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Evelyn Waugh
English - Author
October 28, 1903 - April 10, 1966

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

Ford Madox Ford

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

Mordecai Richler

Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some are about suffering. There are as many different kinds of travel books as there are novels. People think a travel book is one thing. It's many things.

Paul Theroux

I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about how they would work as an anime. But I do believe that those are great books because they work best as novels, or great manga work best in that form.

Makoto Shinkai

That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

Nigel Lythgoe

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

Kenneth Branagh

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

Robert Morgan

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being "a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society."

Ann Patchett

Good travel books are novels at heart.

Jonathan Raban

I'm not a big shopper. I'm very very picky about what it is that I buy, I prefer to buy vintage and then I prefer to be very selective.

Jaime King

The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

Henry David Thoreau

...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

Richard Rohr

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

Patricia J. Williams

When people talk to you in such glowing terms, that is the time to be very, very alert because the worst of the mistakes are made in the best of the times.

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked it out. I once went home with 30 books! It was then that I realized that kids' novels had the shape of real books, and I began to get ideas for young adult novels and juvenile books.

Cynthia Voigt

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