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The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?