Book Quote by Paul Theroux

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the…

— Robert Hass

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes…

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response,…

— August Wilson

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you…

— John Sayles

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people…

— Scott Spencer

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

— Adam Ross