Book Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

— Aleksandar Hemon

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

— Steve Toltz

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we…

— Ruth Ozeki

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

— Robert Crais

Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature…

— Leland Ryken

Books belong to their readers.

— John Green

There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in mind. In…

— Sarnath Banerjee

“On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles,…

— Simon Cheshire

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not…

— Gioconda Belli

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I mean, I…

— Cheryl Strayed

I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question.…

— Chris Abani

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer