“... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.”
“Every life has a story and every story needs a writer.”
“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.”
“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The story itself exists in the reader's mind and nowhere else. And it is different for each reader, because no two people have the same experience, background, training, interests, and so on.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.”