Book Quote by William Golding

“Can a writer forget something that he’s written in one of his own books? Yes, of course.”

— Sherman Alexie

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

— Tom Robbins

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong…

— China Mieville

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

— Anonymous

“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his current thoughts.…

— Jarod Kintz

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

— Walter Dean Myers

The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

— Umberto Eco

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

— Joseph Addison

When we read our own writing, we all think it clearly expresses what we mean, because when we read it, we are only reminding…

— Joseph Williams

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

— Giovannino Guareschi

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

— Mo Yan