Books Quote by Andrea Barrett

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

— Dan Chaon

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time.…

— Monica Ali

I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony…

— Ian Rankin

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

— Frederick Busch

The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation.…

— Garance Dore

I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines.

— Tana French

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

— Frank Harris

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.

— Harlan Coben

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

— Jostein Gaarder

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

— Grace Paley

I'm very much a writer at heart.

— Jamelle Bouie