Books Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

— Luke Rhinehart

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

— Umberto Eco

Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

— Natalie Babbitt

An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

— Evariste Galois

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

— William Goldman

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea…

— Fay Weldon

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.

— Raymond Carver

... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the…

— Marcel Proust