Books Quote by Sheila Heti

I know that it's common for creative people to feel like they're profoundly misunderstood but for the most part I don't feel like that.…

— Liza Johnson

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people…

— Paulo Coelho

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

— Margaret Atwood

When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I think the thing I had to be careful about while writing a book was not to say anything that was revealing about other…

— Mike Birbiglia

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

— Terri Windling

People tend to judge a book by its cover. I love being unexpected and gaining respect for who I am and not how I…

— Alexis Ren

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville

There's this quote by a writer, Emil Cioran, he's a Romanian writer. He says that you should only put things in books that you…

— Steve Toltz

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might…

— Amish Tripathi

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad…

— Thomas L. Dumm

“Books, by their very nature and variety, help us grow in empathy for others, in tolerance and awareness. But they should increase our skepticism…

— Michael Dirda