Book Quote by Anonymous

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

— John Steinbeck

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

— Margaret Atwood

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood…

— John Steinbeck

Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

— Gillian Flynn

I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

— Larry Winget

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true.…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

— John Edgar Wideman

The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

— Donna Tartt

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to…

— Helen Simonson

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville