I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

— Ben Okri

Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.

— Phillip Lopate

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…

— Maggie Stiefvater

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

— William Collins

If you would be a writer, first be a reader

— Allan W. Eckert

“Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers…

— Lang Leav

My husband, William Sutcliffe, the writer, is my first reader and in many ways my most important. That initial reading of the manuscript is…

— Maggie O'Farrell

Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between…

— Jonathan Evison

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea…

— Fay Weldon

Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best of my…

— Terry Pratchett

“Because that’s what a book is: a letter from a writer to a reader. It’s connection. Something that reaches across the divides of time…

— Chris Harrison

Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.

— Rumaan Alam

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus…

— Allan W. Eckert

“On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles,…

— Simon Cheshire

“Sometimes there is no chemistry between writer and reader, so - give up. Not all books are meant to be read.”

— My mother