Audience Quote by John Lanchester

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

— Patrick Ness

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

— Mohsin Hamid

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

— Wally Lamb

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

— Sarah Dessen

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

— Anonymous

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true.…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I mean, I…

— Cheryl Strayed

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin