“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.”
“It's this way, see--when a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader doesn't get any;then, after a while, the writer gets a little kick and the reader gets a little kick; and finally, if the writer's any good, he doesn't get any kick at all and the reader gets everything.”
“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.”
“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it with others.”