Books Quote by Scott Lynch

“One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.”

— Lev Shestov

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought…

— Colm Toibin

“Attempts to connect men's circumstances too closely with their literary productions are usually, I believe, unsuccessful.”

— C.S. Lewis

“I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned,…

— Ian McEwan

“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the fiction was…

— William Gibson

“The greatest work of fiction by any man”

— Centaur Editions

“I would read accounts of so-called battles I had been in, and they had no relation whatever to what had happened. So I began…

— Paul Fussell

“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]”

— Terry Pratchett

“If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and…

— David Denby

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates. Most of…

— Roxane Gay

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

— George Ade