Books Quote by Bob Mayer

Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people…

— Scott Spencer

“Readers have some peculiar notions about the status of writers, the most foolish of which is that writers are treated like royalty by their…

— Reed Farrel Coleman

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

— Lev Grossman

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

“If writers were good business men, they'd have too much sense to be writers.”

— Irvin S. Cobb

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

— Henry R. Luce

“Writers don't need food. Writers can survive on coffee, idea fumes, and trifles. Rich literary trifles.”

— Ksenia Anske

“There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.”

— Elizabeth Hernandez

“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone else’s work…

— Chris Stocking