Books Quote by Raymond Carver

A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is…

— Alberto Manguel

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do…

— Nathalie Sarraute

“Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads”

— Ronald T. Potter-Efron

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

— Anonymous

I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something…

— John M. Ford

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

— Tobias Wolff

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her…

— Annie Proulx

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly,…

— Margaret Atwood

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

— Fanny Fern

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her…

— Annie Proulx

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

— Bernard Malamud