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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature. -- Andre Gide
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. -- Andre Gide
bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin. -- George Eliot
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars. -- Andre Gide
Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good. -- Kenneth Tynan
The existence of good bad literature"?the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously"?is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration. -- George Orwell
Bad literature is a form of treason. -- Joseph Brodsky
Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad. -- Joshua Cohen
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. -- Dashiell Hammett
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. -- David Eddings
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. -- Roger Ebert
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. -- George Henry Lewes
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature. -- Jerry Pournelle
The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.' -- Alexander Payne
I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. -- David Eddings
The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world. -- Ruth Glick
I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death. -- Anne Fortier
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. -- George Saunders
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. -- Chinua Achebe
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him. -- Asa Larsson
You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same. -- Michael Haneke
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife. -- Rudyard Kipling
Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick. -- Charles Lamb
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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