About Quote by Karin Slaughter

There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in mind. In…

— Sarnath Banerjee

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

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

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

— Aaron Sorkin

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back…

— Bernard Beckett

That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

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 am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

— V. S. Naipaul

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville