Book Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

— Van Wyck Brooks

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

— Julien Green

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

— Walt Whitman

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

— Ernest Hemingway

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

— Anonymous

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

— Frank Moore Colby

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

— Malcolm X

No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

— Margaret Atwood

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

— Joseph Addison