Assuming Quote by Edward Hirsch

“Readers often feel they know an author because they’ve read their books. To a degree, this is often true. We write from our individual…

— Cheryl St.John

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

— Don DeLillo

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge.

— Donna Pomona

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 am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

— Bob Kane

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more…

— Irvine Welsh

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

— Jay Asher

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

— Oliver North

Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that…

— David Weinberger

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we…

— Ruth Ozeki

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the…

— Paul Theroux