“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”
“Authors write, readers read, money talks.”
“The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.”
“Readers read to escape from the world, Author's write to never have to go back to it again.”
“I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.”
“I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.”