Books Quote by Susan Howatch

“The calling of an author is more than just to entertain, but also to share ones experiences with the world.”

— M.J. Stoddard

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

— Bryant H. McGill

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

— E. B. White

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

— Brian Lumley

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

— Virginia Woolf

To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

— Bebe Moore Campbell

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

— David Denby

I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives,…

— Cecelia Ahern

It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for the good…

— Joseph Addison

I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will…

— Nikolai Gogol

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look…

— Tim Crouch