Books Quote by Flannery O'Connor

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks…

— Flannery O'Connor

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system. If the…

— Flannery O'Connor

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

I won't read novels while writing novels.

— Wally Lamb

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life…

— P. G. Wodehouse

I don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

— Jenny Zhang