Readers & Writers Connect By Finding One Another

I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

— Roxane Gay

I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other. Casting your…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Oh, we women know things you don't know, you teachers, you readers and writers of books, we are the ones who wait around libraries…

— Joyce Carol Oats

“There's a very thin line that separates readers and writers. You make a leap over that line when there’s a book you want to…

— Alice Hoffman

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers…

— Laini Taylor

The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That…

— Michael Scott

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

— Laura Lippman

I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting the training…

— Hugh Howey

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

— Toni Morrison

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

— Aleksandar Hemon

It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

— Tim Berners-Lee

“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it with others.”

— Geary Davis

“For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? ”

— Hal Duncan

“Writers are readers, too.”

— Bea Cannon