Books Quote by Cheryl St.John

“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).”

— Albert Camus

“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us…

— Pamela Paul

“Every book tells a different story to the person who reads it. How they perceive that book will depend on who they are. A…

— Charles de Lint

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK…

— Charles Todd

Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've got enough…

— N. K. Jemisin

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously,…

— Edward Hirsch

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 suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a…

— Neil Gaiman

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

— Johann Georg Hamann

“It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may…

— Russell M. Goldfarb