Anne Bronte Quotes

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

in writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me—the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.

Most books are three-thirds rubbish.

The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product.” My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose you’re not a lady? she says.

Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that I differ from the father of my sex in no important particular, being as manlike as most of his sons.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.