Books Quote by Djuna Barnes

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and…

— Adam Haslett

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

— Irwin Shaw

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

— V. S. Naipaul

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do…

— J. Oswald Sanders

I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.

— Chang-Rae Lee

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

— Joseph J. Ellis

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

— Rick Riordan

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my…

— Sharon Kay Penman

When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

— Aimee Mann

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

— Elizabeth Berg