Books Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want…

— Oscar Wilde

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

— John Burdett

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

— Raymond Chandler

“There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind”

— Kevin Cowdall

“The English major is, first of all, a reader. She's got a book pup-tented in front of her nose many hours a day; her…

— Mark Edmundson

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

— Russell Smith

At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

— Thomas Carlyle

More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a…

— Dan Mangan

There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does…

— E. B. White

“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books…

— Steve Almond

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem