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

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.