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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

You can't write if you don't read.

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

I don't exist without writing.

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.

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.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

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

I don't call myself a writer.