Another Quote by Eoin Macken

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book…

— Kate DiCamillo

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

— Jay Asher

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad…

— Thomas L. Dumm

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was…

— Arundhati Roy

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you…

— Berry Gordy

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people…

— Paulo Coelho

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

— Mohsin Hamid

There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to…

— Marshall McLuhan

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel…

— Mark Haddon

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

— Albert Einstein

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

— George MacDonald