Books Quote by Toni Morrison

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

— Jasper Fforde

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

— Jerzy Kosinski

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

— China Mieville

“The author is at one end of the experience of writing and the reader is at the other, and the book is the contract…

— Helen Humphreys

You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

— Anna Quindlen

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in…

— Robert Stone

If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he…

— George Saunders

“Let the readers do some of the work themselves”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

— Dean Koontz

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

— David Guterson

Loving your subject, you will write about it with the spontaneity and enthusiasm that will transmit itself to your reader. Loving your reader, you…

— Lee Wyndham