Anything Quote by Mary Grandpre

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader…

— Helen Garner

Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So…

— Paul Beatty

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are…

— Anne Michaels

I like getting under the skin of the protagonists of every book I read, it makes the whole story so much more personal.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives,…

— Cecelia Ahern

I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.

— Christopher Koch

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

— Scott Spencer

We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between…

— Axl Rose

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.

— Christoph Waltz

I'm like the book which almost everyone seems to skim through the pages but never reads the whole story.

— Anonymous