Am Quote by S. E. Hinton

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.

— Dawn Foster

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

— Brian Lumley

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience…

— Iain Banks

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

— Paul Theroux

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and tragedies. I…

— Susan Wiggs

There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in mind. In…

— Sarnath Banerjee

“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending…

— Sara Sheridan

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I mean, I…

— Cheryl Strayed

I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.

— Christopher Koch

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym