Books Quote by Jennifer Egan

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

— Meg Cabot

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness…

— Thomas Perry

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

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying…

— Holly Valance

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I…

— Tom Stoppard

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.

— Mark Kurlansky

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

— Jenny Zhang

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

— Elizabeth Berg

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might…

— Amish Tripathi