Quote by

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

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

Related Quotes:

  1. You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God. – Nick Hornby
  2. It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like. – Nick Hornby
  3. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. – Oscar Wilde
  4. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. – Oscar Wilde
  5. 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. – PB Kerr
  6. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
  7. Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
  8. Women who disapprove of men – and there’s plenty to disapprove of – should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel. – Nick Hornby
  9. I hate time. It never does what you want it to. – Nick Hornby
  10. You should never forget where you come from, never forget the struggle, never forget the lives that were lost. – Nancy Ring
  11. I’ve been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it. – Dean Koontz
  12. I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. – Nick Hornby
  13. I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey. – Nick Hornby
  14. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. – Nick Hornby
  15. To me, making a tape is like writing a letter -“ there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one. – Nick Hornby
  16. All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I’m beginning to see why people don’t do it more often. – Nick Hornby
  17. I’ve committed to nothing…and that’s just suicide…by tiny, tiny increments. – Nick Hornby
  18. Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality. – Nick Hornby
  19. She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything – Nick Hornby
  20. That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all. – Nick Hornby
  21. I’m still pretty sick about what I’ve lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I’m not the best sleeper. – Nick Hornby
  22. Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination. – Nick Hornby
  23. That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all – Nick Hornby
  24. What good were real feelings anyway? – Nick Hornby
  25. I’m human. That’s how humans spend their time, doing shitty things. – Nick Hornby
  26. That’s the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away. – Nick Hornby
  27. If I could have all of those things, I wouldn’t mind if I touched her or not. – Nick Hornby
  28. For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal’s moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own – Nick Hornby
  29. easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret. – Nick Hornby
  30. Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been unable to climb the stairs. – Nick Hornby
  31. Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be! – Kamand Kojouri
  32. Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool, and stop oppressing others so badly. – Bhagat Kabir
  33. I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt. – Neil Gaiman
  34. And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
  35. Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. – Brandon Sanderson
  36. Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore
  37. She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. – Annie Dillard
  38. It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best. – Katarina Bivald
  39. For peace read books, for success read books and take actions. – Amit Kalantri
  40. Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be damaged? Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be weak in some places? – Khadija Rupa

More Quotes

, , , , , , ,