Books Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

“What an interesting choice of words. “Not real, and never were.” Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our profession? Why…

— Scott Lynch

“You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you…

— Donald McCaig

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

— George Ade

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

— Anonymous

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

— Edna Longley

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man,…

— Joseph Addison

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“But the period I studied -- the rollicking eighteenth century engraved by Hogarth -- was the one that saw the birth of America, of…

— Erica Jong

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

“We studied men like him at school – protected gentlemen, rich gentlemen, white gentlemen, who picked up pens and wrote the world for the…

— Jessie Burton

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

— Lisa Gardner

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