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“I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.”

Reading Metaphor Henry James Boring Books

Author:W.B. Yeats

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

Book Character Shows Anxiety Boring Show Me Boring Books

Book:Margaret Atwood: Conversations

Source: Margaret Atwood: Conversations

“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.”

Wells Important Book Courses Fun Written Stupid Smart Boring Idiot Genre Distinction Snob Well Written Boring Books

Author:Stephen Marche

“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.”

People Book Teach Boring Zealous Boring Books

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“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.”

Thinking Children Book Ideas Literature Roles Behavior Models Boring Features Role Models Exemplary Patronizing Boring Books

Author:Mac Barnett

“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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Book:The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“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.”

Book One Thing Notes Boring Reading Books Scholarship Drudgery Boring Books

Author:Simon Raven