Books Quote by David Foster Wallace

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

— Julian Barnes

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

— Dr. Seuss

“A great reader makes a great writer”

— Kate DiCamillo

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

— Elizabeth Bowen

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he…

— Sarah Fielding

“Writers write like readers and read like writers.”

— Laura Hamilton

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

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

— Sherwood Smith