“...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse.”

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

“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.”

“It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.”

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”

“What is reading, in the last analysis, but an interchange of thought between writer and reader? If the book enters the reader's mind just as it left the writer's -- without any of the additions and modifications inevitably produced by contact with a new body of thought -- it has been read to no purpose.”