Books Quote by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Howard Gordon

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

“Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.”

— Mark Rubinstein

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead…

— Julia Cameron

“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

[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human being writes…

— George Saunders

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear…

— Saul Bellow

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

— Isabel Allende

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with…

— Oliver Goldsmith