Book Quote by Rebecca Stead

When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

— Paulo Coelho

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by…

— Mary Jo Salter

I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important…

— Chinua Achebe

“My message will be very clear; it is that I think we have to continue to read novels. Because I think that the novel…

— Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the…

— Shannon Hale

“I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they died, I…

— Saul Bellow

When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe…

— Paul McCartney

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

— Anna Quindlen

I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from…

— Tamora Pierce

“A writer is like a tuning fork: We respond when we’re struck by something. The thing is to pay attention, to be ready for…

— Roxana Robinson

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat