Assessment Quote by Daniel Handler

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

— Paula Danziger

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

— Victor Hugo

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

— Greg van Eekhout

The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith,…

— Stephen King

Books can be terrible snobs.

— Simon R. Green

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to…

— Janet Evanovich

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense…

— Arnold Bennett

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems…

— Virginia Woolf

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's…

— George Sand

My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the…

— Eudora Welty

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel…

— John Grisham