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

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

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.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the 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.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

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.