Book Quote by P. L. Travers

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

— Lois Lowry

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

— Samuel Johnson

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to…

— Samuel Johnson

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

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

— Julian Barnes

“ALL WRITERS ARE READERS, BUT NOT IN REVERSE.”

— DDSherman

Book is a half of a clapping hand and the reader is the other half of it. :))

— Reader's Digest

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

— Colum McCann

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

— David Mitchell

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

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present…

— Julian Barnes

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

— Oliver North