Books Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ”

— Katarina Anhava

“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people…

— William Gaddis

“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).”

— Albert Camus

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.…

— Harlan Coben

“No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing.”

— Anthony Liccione

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,…

— Samuel Johnson

“Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.”

— Richard Peck

“I was first a reader and without readers what would be the point in writing. For those of you who love a good story,…

— Michelle Dennis Evans

“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.”

— Oscar Patton

“I can't understand how a man who seems never to read imaginative writing of any kind (novels, poetry, short stories, high-brow, middle-brow, low-brow, anything)…

— Yann Martel

“A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at all, who…

— Laurence Sterne