Anomalies Quote by W. S. Gilbert

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

To me, there was something moving about the idea of telling the story of a lady who is, in a way, a forgotten character…

— Sebastian Lelio

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had…

— Lydia M. Child

Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and…

— Charlotte Mendelson

There was only one human experience I worried about missing. Of course it would be the one he wished I would forget completely. -Bella…

— The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

— Tom Robbins

“Newspapers routinely refer to the missing men as ‘disappeared persons’, and their waiting wives are the ‘half-widows’.”

— Basharat Peer

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her…

— Ian Mcewan

While I was writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing' and struggling with the intricacies of the plot, I told myself the next book would be really…

— Emma Healey

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

— H. G. Wells

I always wonder if I would be missed

— Me

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

— William Gibson