“Without the reader there would be no writer.”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”

“If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.”

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”

“A writer is a reader moved to emulation.”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader”

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”

“Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.”

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”