Books Quote by Graham Greene

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

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

— Julian Barnes

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow

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

— Sylvia Day

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

— Mohsin Hamid

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

— James A. Baldwin

Those who write clearly have readers.

— Albert Camus

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs

If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that…

— Thomas Merton

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