The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
Most people like a little sex in their novels.
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.
Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
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