Book Quote by Philip Pullman

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

— Nikki Giovanni

When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.

— Rebecca Stead

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You hope that people read your book and say "Yes, this is the way it is or could be." But then you have no…

— Robert Cormier

To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you…

— Norman Mailer

I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We…

— Maureen Corrigan

Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to what I…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust the reader…

— Nicole Krauss

“A novel, or a book on philosophy, is going to use both sides of the brain: not only will you have feelings about what…

— Philippa Perry

Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated, and you're…

— Laila Lalami

“For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and…

— Diane Schoemperlen