Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
I have faith that worthy but misunderstood or ignored books can still prevail - and when they do, fewer joys are as sweet - but authors have families to support and rent to pay, and for them, I hope for acclaim in their time rather than late-in-life or posthumously.
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.