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

“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.”

“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.”

“The writer does not get from his work as he writes and reads it the same aesthetic shock that the reader does; and since the writer is so accustomed to reading other stories, and having them produce a decided effect upon him, he is disquieted at not being equally affected by his own.”

“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”

“Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.”

“A writer is a reader moved to emulation.”

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