Book Quote by Kanye West

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

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 try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do…

— Saul Bellow

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie…

— Thomas Lennon

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't…

— Peter York

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

For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it's really…

— Cassandra Clare

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your…

— Sheila Heti

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