Appeals Quote by Annie Dillard

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market.…

— Hilary Mantel

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise…

— David Guterson

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks…

— Flannery O'Connor

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

— Douglas Adams

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

— Penelope Lively

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.

— Charlie Huston

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.

— Michael Lewis

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole…

— Billy Burke

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

— George W. Bush