Book Quote by Donald Barthelme

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

— Elena Ferrante

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

— Wilbur Smith

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or…

— Molly Ringwald

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

— Gore Vidal

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

— Jen Lancaster

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment

Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.

— Pete Hamill