Book Quote by Nora Barnacle

Why don't you write books people can read?

— Nora Joyce

“James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?”

— John Lloyd

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

You know what? I feel my book is kind of pointless. I didn't want to do a book, but rather than tell the same…

— Al Jourgensen

I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.

— Suze Orman

Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.

— Pam Houston

I won't read novels while writing novels.

— Wally Lamb

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

— Anne Rice