Book Quote by Ruskin Bond

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business…

— Agatha Christie

If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it that it…

— Jesse Andrews

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

— Robert Kirkman

I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from…

— Paulo Coelho

Writers talk too much.

— Lillian Hellman

You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do…

— Saul Bellow

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

— Salman Rushdie

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your…

— Sheila Heti

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a…

— Edna Ferber

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the…

— Ray Charles

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a…

— Maggie Stiefvater