“Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.”

“Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.”

“Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare”

“O Reader! had you in your mind
Such stores as silent thought can bring,
O gentle Reader! you would find
A tale in everything.”

“There is a sense in which every great book is always over the head of the reader: he can never fully comprehend it. That is why these books are great teachers; they demand the attention of the reader and keep his intelligence on the stretch.”

“Cliff was a very smart guy, a reader, very eloquent. I just don't understand why he went, and not one of us.”

“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader…”

“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader ("Good Readers and Good Writers", p. 3).”

“Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.”

“It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.”