Book Quote by Alec-Tweedie

“Authors are really polite and down to earth, it's just people always have a sarcastic and bully approach towards them. There is nothing wrong…

— Himmilicious

Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful about my…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I'm easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else's head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy satirical novels…

— Richard Dawkins

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

— John Burdett

“Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of Thought will…

— Mister Lemur

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

— Milan Kundera

The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

— Donna Tartt

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and…

— Norman MacCaig

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of…

— Liev Schreiber

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie