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That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

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

I hate to write! But I love to talk, so I'm told that when people read my books, it like I'm there just talking…

— Steven Gundry

I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want…

— Richard Curtis

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from…

— Paulo Coelho

For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it's really…

— Cassandra Clare

Sometimes readers are telling me about what they read of my books and I don't remember at all.

— Peter Handke

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in…

— Rachel Joyce

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating…

— Gary Ross

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up…

— Norton Juster