Book Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

— Henry David Thoreau

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading…

— Wilkie Collins

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie

If you liked a book, don't meet the author

— Raymond Chandler

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

— Larry Hagman

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek…

— Orson Scott Card

“You can write the most wonderful book in the world. But if people don’t know about your book they won’t know to buy it.”

— Madi Preda

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis

“Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there…

— Roy Blount Jr

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who…

— Donald Barthelme