Book Quote by E. V. Lucas

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for…

— Horace Walpole

“I read all kinds of novels, as long as they’re good. I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don’t really like that…

— Gillian Flynn

“None of the things I have mentioned can make a foolish man wise or a bad book good. But when they are properly used…

— John Russell

“LAURA ATCHISON, Author of "What Would A Wise Woman Do?", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester: “Truth is always wilder than fiction. Hold on…

— Laura Atchison

Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others…

— Robertson Davies

Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but…

— Alice Munro

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

— Jonathan Dee

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

— Gillian Flynn