Books Quote by Chloe Benjamin

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader…

— Susan Cheever

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

— Susie Bright

I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to…

— Rick Remender

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.

— Nathan Englander

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

— Patrick deWitt

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

— Piers Anthony

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner.…

— Karen Russell

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

— Akhil Sharma

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories…

— James Patterson

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan