Books Quote by Ewan McGregor

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.

— Elmore Leonard

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

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

— Mohsin Hamid

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order to do…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

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

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

— Anatole Broyard

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

— Patrick Modiano

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

— Mohsin Hamid

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond