Books Quote by Olga Tokarczuk

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— Philip Roth

I write books to find out about things.

— Rebecca West

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell…

— Sidney Sheldon

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just…

— Ann Hood

I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I hope that…

— Colson Whitehead

I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a…

— Janet Evanovich

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

— Les Parrott

Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It's a good…

— Kate DiCamillo