“Depth is not something the writer puts into a book; it's something the reader takes out of it.”
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“Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.”
“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
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