Books Quote by Kevin J. Anderson

“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people…

— T.S. Eliot

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

— Mohsin Hamid

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

— Charles Caleb Colton

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

— Jean Rhys

“The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.”

— A.E. Poynor

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

— Italo Calvino

But authors before they write should read.

— Fanny Burney

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

— Tom Robbins

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the…

— Louise Erdrich

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

— Monica Ali

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis