Boring Books Quotes

• People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.

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  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Book   People   Zealous  

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• Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

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  Simon Raven

  Book   Boring   Notes  

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• Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

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  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Powerful   Book   Writing  

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.

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  Stephen Marche

  Fun   Smart   Stupid  

  "How Genre Fiction Became More Important Than Literary Fiction" by Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. March 11, 2015.

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• Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.

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  Margaret Atwood

  Book   Character   Anxiety  

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

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  Mac Barnett

  Children   Book   Thinking  

  "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.

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