Books Quote by Jan Neruda

Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No.

— Emma Healey

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

— Jami Attenberg

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

— Anonymous

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

— Harlan Coben

“Do not insult a writer by asking him questions related to books written by someone else. If you are not reading the books written…

— Robin Sacredfire

“A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.”

— K. Sean Harris

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

— Graham Greene

A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question…

— Anonymous

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in…

— Robert Musil

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

— Mohsin Hamid

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

— Walter Kirn

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.

— Peter Kropotkin