Source: Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952), How to Study Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise, p. 144
“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”
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As quoted in C.S. Lewis (1963), by Roger Lancelyn Green, p. 9

“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.”
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

April 6, 1775
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
Source: Works of Samuel Johnson

“She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.”
Source: The Marriage Plot

“If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.”
Book II, ch. 18.
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