Anything Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

— V. S. Naipaul

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

— Tim Maleeny

Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.

— Eddie Izzard

I'm not a reader myself, so I don't expect anyone else to be.

— Paul Gilbert

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.

— Andrew Wylie

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

Those who write clearly have readers.

— Albert Camus

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

— John Malkovich