Blinders Quote by Dan Brown

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read.…

— 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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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

— Samuel L. Jackson

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

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it…

— David McCullough

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

— Lynne Tillman

If you would be a writer, first be a reader

— Allan W. Eckert