Age Quote by Natsuo Kirino

I'm not surprised that my books appeal to adults.

— Chris Van Allsburg

“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading is to…

— Rebecca Solnit

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Authors have a nationality; books do not.

— Leila Slimani

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

— Ralph Ellison

I never think of my work as writing for a young audience, frankly, because I think it risks talking 'down' to them. The idea…

— Soman Chainani

When my novels are packaged as exclusively for women, I'm not only cut off from a vital portion of my audience but clearly labelled…

— Lionel Shriver

Books by women, people of color, LGBTQ authors, differently abled people, and non-Americans are a great way of broadening horizons and building empathy.

— Celeste Ng

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a…

— Bharati Mukherjee

We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're…

— Jeanette Winterson