Finish Quote by Jonathan Franzen

I'm obsessed with this book 'Independent People,' by Halldor Laxness.

— Torrey Peters

I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.

— Jillian Medoff

A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters. It's not…

— Richard Flanagan

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

— Chetan Bhagat

I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine…

— Ian Mcewan

Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and…

— Frederick Buechner

I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“Read and deliver yourself in every page!”

— Semere Sahlemariam

One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

I'm like the book which almost everyone seems to skim through the pages but never reads the whole story.

— Anonymous

I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.

— Morris Gleitzman