Attention Quote by Anonymous

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people…

— Karin Slaughter

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

— Anita Brookner

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

— Patrick Ness

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments always start…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb

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