“How lasting the impact of social media will have is yet to be determined, but one thing for sure, it has turned the chain of influence upside down. Today the reader, the lowly reader, that presumably passive consumer of all the great insight handed down by the reporter, confirmed by the analyst, attested to by the reference customer—this reader, I say, has now become the writer! Except it is not a reader/writer. It is reader/writers at large, many readers, the wisdom (or madness) of crowds. We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs.”

“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.”

“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 is a reader moved to emulation.”

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

“Without the reader there would be no writer.”

“I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.”

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