Books Quote by Zadie Smith

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

— S. E. Hinton

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you…

— Samuel Butler

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

— Anonymous

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

— E. L. Doctorow

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

If you don't like my book, write your own.

— Rita Mae Brown

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

— Robert Burton

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

— S. E. Hinton

“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are more interesting…

— Michel Faber

If you like what you're reading, I probably wrote it.

— Christopher Moore

Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the…

— Sarah Waters

I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't…

— Sally Rooney