Books Quote by Neel Mukherjee

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw…

— Anne Lamott

But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people…

— Katharine Weber

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks…

— Flannery O'Connor

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

— Anna Quindlen

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story -…

— F. Paul Wilson

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better…

— Karin Slaughter

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

— Anonymous

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this…

— Italo Calvino

I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to…

— Teju Cole

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates