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

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

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

“As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.”

“A writer is a reader moved to emulation.”

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

“Without the reader there would be no writer.”

“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.”

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

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