Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact because in my line of work I read a lot of bad books - books so bad they aren't even published, which is quite a feat, when you consider what is published.
And what they all have in common, these bad books, be they novels or memoirs, is this: they don't ring true. I'm not saying that a good book is true necessarily, just that it feels true for the time you're reading it.

There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.