Books Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it.

— Hilton Als

“The reader is more important than the writer but the writer should never write just for the reader---authentic writing is a must yet, without…

— Alexander M. Zoltai

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

— Giacomo Casanova

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the…

— Knut Hamsun

“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.”

— Oscar Patton

“Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.”

— Ian McEwan

When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my…

— Taslima Nasrin

“You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

— Beth Moore

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write…

— Maya Angelou

Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No.

— Emma Healey

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf