Books Quote by Peter Schjeldahl

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard between writers…

— Jonathan Santlofer

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but…

— W. H. Auden

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

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

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

— Matthew Specktor

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

— Mohsin Hamid

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Julian Barnes

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

— Oliver North

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

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were…

— Alice Munro

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike