Books Quote by Jacob Weisberg

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every…

— Jonathan Franzen

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of…

— David Foster Wallace

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just…

— Jodi Picoult

Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful about my…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out…

— John Caples

Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.

— Karin Slaughter

I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger…

— Mary Beard

The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

— Octavia E. Butler

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

— V. S. Naipaul

Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to…

— Quentin Tarantino

I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.

— Luis Alberto Urrea