Forced Appreciation Quotes

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Moli&#232re, and Swift.

Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.

I often find myself listening to a record because a lot of people or magazines have told me it's good and I'm supposed to like it, and I try to stay in touch with what's happening and I'm also a fan of music. I find myself trying to like something that I really don't think is that great.

Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.