Books Quote by Caroline James

We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.

— Pauletta Pearson Washington

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

— E. L. Doctorow

“We need readers,” muttered Daniel Chard. “More readers. Fewer writers.”

— Robert Galbraith

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and…

— Gary Paulsen

Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of time. Reading…

— Zia Haider Rahman

“The fact is that as writers we need to make our mark. But, to do that, we must help our words make their mark.…

— Suyog Ketkar

“Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially those as…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is…

— John Green

My dream is to try to reach as many kids and readers who might need an unlikely hero to connect to.

— Tim Federle

I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts.…

— Sharon Kay Penman

Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.

— Janet Evanovich

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

— Karen Kingsbury