Accounts Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

— Frank Moore Colby

I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for women. Reading…

— Justin Cartwright

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the…

— Anne Bronte

Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready…

— Anonymous

“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of…

— Marcel Proust

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels…

— Anne Bronte

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

— Ernest Hemingway

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

— Anonymous

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

— Baltasar Gracian

The human story is another aspect of the struggle a man might have to make if he was to be true to his own…

— Anonymous

Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these two groups,…

— Nicholson Baker

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin