Books Quote by Ann Patchett

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has…

— Wesley Morris

One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person.…

— Meg Rosoff

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to…

— Robert Caro

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

— Willa Cather

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached…

— Angel Olsen

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

— Jerzy Kosinski

I feel like I always learn when I'm writing, even when I'm not writing about myself. I'm careful not to judge; I try to…

— Sarah Gerard

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

“One ought not to fall in love with someone by way of their writing. One must be especially careful if the writing is good,…

— Jane Juska