Lousy Book Quotes

#1. There is no money in the world that would compensate me for writing a lousy book.

David Lagercrantz

#2. Would that I were still a ludicrous character in his lousy book!

Philip Roth

#3. I reached over, opened it in the middle, and began reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Nothing had changed. It was still a lousy book.

Charles Bukowski

#4. Life was too short for weak orgasms and lousy lays.

Christina Elle

#5. The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.

Michael Scheuer

#6. You have one lousy dream, and you think you're destined for coloring book greatness.

Tarryn Fisher

#7. Only the prophets see the obvious.

Nelson Rodrigues

#8. I saw a lot of lousy movies and watched a ton of crappy television and read a bunch of utterly forgettable books and comics and listened to hours of junk music as a kid. And I'm still drawing profitably in my own art on some of the tawdry treasure I stored up in those years.

Michael Chabon

#9. My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.

Cammi Granato

#10. The best way to create a future is to set a goal and take action.

Debasish Mridha

#11. All the creativity books in the world aren't going to help you if you're unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

Seth Godin

#12. Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.

Blake Lively

#13. Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?

Pope Francis

#14. A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Boris Yeltsin

#15. It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

S.A. Bodeen

#16. I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.

Don Winslow

#17. Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Ani DiFranco