Book Quote by John Green

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

— Claire Tomalin

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will…

— Jasper Fforde

The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe…

— Larry Niven

The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books.

— Thomas Hauser

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

— Jasper Fforde

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

— Samuel Johnson

A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of…

— Isabel Allende

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger,…

— Paul Auster

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

— Colum McCann

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

— Anne Fadiman

A book is not completed till it's read.

— Salman Rushdie