“Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.”
“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.”
“Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.”
“We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different.”
“In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.”