Books Quote by Margaret Atwood

I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read…

— Mary Roach

I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a…

— Karen Marie Moning

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people…

— Paulo Coelho

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

— Veronica Roth

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters…

— Mohsin Hamid

It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story…

— Michelle Richmond

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of…

— David Foster Wallace

“I often have the feeling that even at the best of times literary criticism is fraudulent, since in the absence of any accepted standards…

— George Orwell

“Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It’s real. My heart races when they kiss, and I get…

— Emma Hart

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

— William Wordsworth