Attention Quote by Alexandra Fuller

I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from…

— Paulo Coelho

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

— Peter Ackroyd

I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I…

— Charles de Lint

I don't read loads of books, but I talk to and learn a lot from many different people I encounter and that's been completely…

— Ben Francis

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

— Elbert Hubbard

I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I'm working on, it's never going to be an actual book. So…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Sometimes I enjoy talking, but when it's like people are trying to find something out about me, I don't.

— Cameron Diaz

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we…

— Will Schwalbe

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.

— Kevin Brockmeier

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

— Sarah Dessen

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in…

— Sean Bean

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for…

— Sarah MacLean