Before and after Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you…

— Berry Gordy

Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It's a good…

— Kate DiCamillo

The point of books is to combat loneliness.

— David Foster Wallace

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

— Christopher Paolini

I hate to write! But I love to talk, so I'm told that when people read my books, it like I'm there just talking…

— Steven Gundry

We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they…

— Libba Bray

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Books have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift of literature…

— Bob Smith

I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from…

— Paulo Coelho

I have always felt that books help me feel less alone in the world. They make our lives bigger - they help us to…

— Lisa Lucas

I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask,…

— John Edgar Wideman