Books Quote by Donna Tartt

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

— William Wordsworth

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

“People aren't reading self-published authors because people can't even get past the poor quality of the samples. They aren't reading books they don't want…

— Linda Hilton

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— Flannery O'Connor

But authors before they write should read.

— Fanny Burney

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.…

— Harlan Coben

Like most authors, I also love to read.

— Aprilynne Pike

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson