Always Quote by Meg Rosoff

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

— Ann Patchett

In fiction, if people like one of your books, they tend to pick up your other books as well.

— Ravi Subramanian

“Every book tells a different story to the person who reads it. How they perceive that book will depend on who they are. A…

— Charles de Lint

If you want to write about a person who isn't nice, people say, "This is a bad book. It's about somebody I couldn't stand."…

— Tama Janowitz

I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you just like…

— David Salle

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

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

Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't…

— Paul Harding

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about…

— Adam Braver

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the…

— E. L. Doctorow

I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

— Maurizio Sarri

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood