Blinders Quote by Dan Brown

It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want…

— Dan Brown

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

— Salman Rushdie

In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've…

— E. B. White

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

— Samuel L. Jackson

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to…

— Salman Rushdie

At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think…

— Tea Obreht

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

— Amy Purdy

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of…

— Antony Beevor

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

If you would be a writer, first be a reader

— Allan W. Eckert

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner