Adore Quote by Hilary Mantel

Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read'…

— Karin Slaughter

I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time.…

— Monica Ali

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.

— Harlan Coben

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

— Dan Chaon

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book…

— Lorde

I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily written and…

— Jennifer Saunders

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I'm like the book which almost everyone seems to skim through the pages but never reads the whole story.

— Anonymous

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

— Grace Paley

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

— Susie Bright

Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've…

— Andrea Barrett