Books Quote by Anna Quindlen

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

— Alice Hoffman

“It's not a silly pursuit to read beyond what's handed to you, to seek out new voices and leap over the usual books everyone's…

— Nova Ren Suma

Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between…

— Jonathan Evison

I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both,…

— Linda Sue Park

A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a bit instructive.

— Olga Tokarczuk

“How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that novelists seize…

— Wallace Stegner

I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard…

— Jay Neugeboren

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

— Sarah Mlynowski

We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the…

— Veena Sud

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do…

— Wendelin Van Draanen