Books Quote by Alan Furst

I try not to bore my readers.

— Jackie Collins

I don't think anybody likes to read people writing horrible stuff about you.

— Darren Bent

There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst,…

— Samuel Johnson

Nobody has had more awful things written about them than me.

— Brigitte Nielsen

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify,…

— Stephen King

I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be God and…

— Jay McInerney

“Horror writers shouldn't play nice. Disturb & unnerve your reader. Make them uncomfortable, but not so much they stop reading.”

— Pamela Morris

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is…

— Nigella Lawson

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary…

— Edward St Aubyn

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.

— Frederick Busch

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

— Craig Charles