Book Quote by Paulo Coelho

I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is to write…

— Sally Rooney

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

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

— Irvine Welsh

I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read…

— Mary Roach

I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

— Alexandra Bracken

There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in mind. In…

— Sarnath Banerjee

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad…

— Thomas L. Dumm

I hate to write! But I love to talk, so I'm told that when people read my books, it like I'm there just talking…

— Steven Gundry

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if…

— George Eliot

I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter…

— Brian Tracy

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville

For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it's really…

— Cassandra Clare