Blinders Quote by Melissa Febos

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want…

— Dan Brown

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger,…

— Paul Auster

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

I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't…

— Sally Rooney

There's a great temptation to throw things in, as you put it, that you think are neat, or that you have a very clear,…

— Rebecca Stead

I made a conscious decision when I was writing that book to depict in real time how I treated it, and how I thought…

— Melissa Febos

The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I think about the reader. I care about the reader. Not “audience.” Not “readership.” Just the reader. That one person, alone in a room,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I think with my book, I wanted to first of all just be completely involved in it. I wanted to write it; I didn't…

— Vogue Williams

I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away…

— Alexander Chee

Writing the book automatically made me accept myself and love myself more.

— Erica Mena