Books Quote by Esther Freud

If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.

— Rebecca Stead

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

— Paul Celan

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

What you look for as a reader is somebody who is going to take you and say, 'C'mon. Come into the story. I'm going…

— Celeste Ng

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

— Ernest Hemingway

Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask questions about…

— Fiona Barton

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use…

— Virginia Woolf

Along the way, about certain things, you realize, "I don't know anything about this." You think, "Is this going to sound ridiculous?" So I…

— Jaume Cabre

My husband, William Sutcliffe, the writer, is my first reader and in many ways my most important. That initial reading of the manuscript is…

— Maggie O'Farrell