Books Quote by Hope Jahren

Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have…

— Umberto Eco

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

— Erwin Knoll

I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Readers know what the copy is going to say.

— John Caples

If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

— Rachel Kushner

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

— Robert Redford

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

— Kate Moss

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

— Lloyd Alexander

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people…

— Karin Slaughter