Adventure Quote by Lynn Johnston

The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not…

— W. Somerset Maugham

When I'm writing, I'm thinking, "Well, this might be a book that I'll always be happy with, and certainly readers will be happy with."…

— John Edgar Wideman

I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

— Gail Carriger

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

— Andre Maurois

The story of my life is not over because of some bad lucks,bad days,difficult situations,i still have a lot of chapters to write..so it's…

— Bakare

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where…

— Daniel Alarcon

I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason…

— Terry Goodkind

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

— Zane Grey

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

— Maureen Forrester

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of…

— Ernest Hemingway

It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.

— Avi

I really don't like books when characters are just bad or just good.

— Ellen Ullman