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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

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

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort out what's important and what is peripheral in order to be able to dive in.