Book Quote by David Farland

And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers…

— Isabel Allende

There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in mind. In…

— Sarnath Banerjee

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium,…

— Tillie Olsen

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience…

— Alan Lightman

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to…

— S. E. Hinton

Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing…

— Garth Nix

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to…

— Janet Evanovich

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is…

— Norman Mailer

Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to…

— Stephen Coonts

In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in…

— Steven Tyler

Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush,…

— Ben H. Winters