Reader Writer Quotes

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.

The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

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 have with others.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

That underscored this idea that when we're reading a book or writing a book, you're in an act of co-creation. The reader and the writer are both trying to dress up and present their best selves and then there's that moment, when suddenly, as a reader, you're not exactly you anymore, and likewise, as a writer, you're not really you.

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

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

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.