A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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.
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.
The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.