“One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights […] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.”

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

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

“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).”

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

“While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.”

“In literature you don't just read one poem or novel after another, but enter into a complete world of which every work of literature forms part. This affects the writer as much as it does the reader.”

“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”

“Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”

“I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.”