Book Quote by Carolyn Hart

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise…

— David Guterson

God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean…

— Iain Pears

I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.

— Andy Dunn

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have…

— Iris Murdoch

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

— Patrick Ness

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've…

— Alexandra Fuller

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at…

— A. A. Milne

“Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to…

— Chinua Achebe

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

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