“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

“No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”

“A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.”

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”

“Suddenly the reader's eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book isn't true?- And the reader replied: -I know; but what I feel is real.”