Books Quote by David Foster Wallace

I'm not immune to the readers' desires. Sometimes they are my own, because I'm a reader, too. The readers' desire to know what really…

— Nicole Krauss

What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.

— Marlon James

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

— Virginia Woolf

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader…

— Helen Garner

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

“If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like…

— Margaret Atwood

I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers…

— Lynne Tillman

The thing is, for me, as a fiction writer, I don't think there's a finer testament to our lives than this thing that's being…

— Joshua Ferris

Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of…

— Margaret Atwood

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

— J. M. Coetzee

I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued.

— Joseph Boyden

Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer…

— John Updike