“There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer – reading is so much a part of it.”

“You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.”

Patricia Duncker book Hallucinating Foucault

“Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

“I have got so far as to lose the distinction between right and wrong. Isn't that the first step in politics?”

Henry Adams book Democracy: An American Novel

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

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer

“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).”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lectures on Literature

“There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.”

Isaac Asimov book Buy Jupiter and Other Stories