Books Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Depressing Ends Novel
A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings. — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly, it's nice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic.… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever… — Aurora Rose Reynolds Copy Share Image
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
