Book Quote by Antony Sher

“I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness creeps into…

— Harry Mazer

“Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.”

— Sheila Heti

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.

— Marion Bailey

“There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we…

— Alain de Botton

“But it is a strange experience, to a man of pride and sensibility, to know that his interests are within the control of individuals…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom, so common with novel-writers, of degrading, by their contemptuous censure, the very…

— Jane Austen

“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.” Such is…

— Jane Austen

“Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs Dent and Mrs Eshton to draw her into conversation, had first murmured…

— Charlotte Bronte

“You simply do not understand the human condition,” said the robot. Hah! Do you think you do, you conceited hunk of animated tin?” Yes,…

— Poul Anderson

“she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore…

— Terry Pratchett

“And my own feelings? Shame. For I had lied. Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued Jane Eyre over…

— Diane Setterfield

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to…

— Jane Austen