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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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.
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.