Book Quote by Neil Gaiman

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

— Sylvia Day

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write,…

— Lawrence Block

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

— Kate DiCamillo

I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

— Philip Roth

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred…

— Lev Grossman

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

— Mark Leibovich

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my…

— Jane Yolen

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it…

— David McCullough

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to…

— Helen Simonson