About Quote by Blake Bailey

Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

Like most authors, I also love to read.

— Aprilynne Pike

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to…

— Ken Follett

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.

— Clive Cussler

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

— Donna Tartt

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

— Isabel Allende

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Readers often feel they know an author because they’ve read their books. To a degree, this is often true. We write from our individual…

— Cheryl St.John

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those…

— Kameron Hurley