Books Quote by Steve Erickson

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

— Salman Rushdie

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

— Quentin Tarantino

The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some…

— Paul Auster

The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I…

— Anthony Burgess

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

— Alan Lightman

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

— James Arthur

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of…

— John Updike

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

— Ray Bradbury

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

“The question one asks of the young writer who wants to know if he's got what it takes is this: "Is writing novels what…

— John Gardner

The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put…

— Paul Auster