Books Quote by Piers Anthony

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice…

— Jennifer Egan

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

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 a novel is a lot like reading one.

— Katherine Center

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

— Etgar Keret

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

— Flannery O'Connor

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

— John Cheever

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett

I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them. Clearly you…

— Darren Boyd