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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
— Augusten Burroughs
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.
— Paula Spencer
Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.
— Y.S. Lee
You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that's what my mother made me.
— Richard Russo
Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world.
— K.J. Kilton
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
— A.S. Byatt
Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!
— Susan Campbell Bartoletti
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.
— Nicole Krauss
You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.
— Annie Dillard
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
— Sidney Sheldon
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
— Maggie Stiefvater
The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
— Ann Voskamp
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.
— Steven Erikson
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
— P.L. Travers
The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.
— Debasish Mridha
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
— John Hodgman
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
— George R R Martin
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
— Ken Follett
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
— Jon Krakauer
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
— Astro Teller
The interaction between author and reader is the most intimate in the world of art. The reader's imagination shares and completes the writer's.
— Mark Rubinstein
God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
What you produce as a writer is art. A voice that opens a vein and leaves the reader lapping at the blood that's been drawn.
— H.N. Sieverding
I see the role of the writer as creating a room with big windows and leaving the reader to imagine. It's a meeting on the page.
— Kevin Crossley-Holland
Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.
— Anne Lamott
If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.
— Laurie R. King
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.
— Karen Thompson Walker
A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.
— Patricia Duncker
Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world
— Irene Fantopoulos
Writers survive within pages. This is a gift from a writer to a reader. Regeneration by pure esoteric thought." - Susan Marie
— Susan Marie
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
— Thomas Wolfe
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
— Willa Cather
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
— Arthur Koestler
A writer's thoughts can act as an Aladdin's lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life.
— Debasish Mridha
The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.
— Patricia T. O'Conner
I've always been a reader and a writer.
— Laini Taylor
Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader.
— Cheryl Alleway
A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.
— Anthony Liccione
More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction.
— Greg Van Eekhout
The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
— Wallace Stegner
I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.
— Michelle D. Kwasney
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer ... and on the reader.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.
— Jonathan Ames
A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time.
— Terrance Zepke
Ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse.
— Shandy L. Kurth
Did you ever want to be a writer?" "No," she said, and she would have told him. "I only wanted to be a reader.
— Ann Patchett
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Every time someone opens a book and begins to read, a synergy between the reader and the writer occurs across time and space.
— Jeanette O'Hagan
Words build a bridge between the imaginations of writer and reader, creating something unique between them.
— Jane Lindskold
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.
— Dermot Healy
My priority as a writer is that my reader's entertainment comes first, second, and last.
— B.J. Kibble
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.
— Mary McCarthy
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
— Paul Di Filippo
There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.
— Jasper Fforde
When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.
— Stephen King
The ear is the only writer and the only true reader.
— Robert Frost
