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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.

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.

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

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

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.