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Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. -- Roxane Gay
It's the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work. -- Tim Berners-Lee
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations. -- Michael Crichton
I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers. -- Maggie Stiefvater
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever. -- Sarah MacLean
I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other. Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me. -- Ruth Ozeki
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. -- Margaret Atwood
I've always been a reader and a writer. -- Laini Taylor
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. -- Robert Frost
Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men. -- Teresa Medeiros
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers. -- Lev Grossman
If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer. -- Mark Billingham
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. -- Brian Lumley
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it. -- Dermot Healy
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. -- Jon Krakauer
The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears. -- Katherine Paterson
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. -- Augusten Burroughs
I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people. -- Rachel Caine
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers. -- Avi
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. -- P. L. Travers
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer. -- Ken Follett
There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them. -- Jasper Fforde
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. -- Arthur Koestler
For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions and ideas. The reader just might be the most powerful tool in a writer's arsenal. -- Jonathan Evison
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. -- Garth Stein
Writers are storytellers. So are readers. -- Oliver North
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. -- Horace Walpole
Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves. -- Mohsin Hamid
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not. -- J. A. Konrath
There are more writers who read than readers who write. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. -- Steven Spielberg
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. -- Steven Spielberg
Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers. -- Steven Spielberg
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. -- Ian Mcewan
When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it. -- Tracy Kidder
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population. -- Alan Lightman
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. -- Stan Barstow
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. -- Lois Lowry
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. -- Michael Cunningham
And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers? -- Djuna Barnes
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers. -- Kurt Vonnegut
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. -- Lloyd Alexander
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers. -- Jacques Barzun
All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. -- Thomas Swick
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers -- Jacques Barzun
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. -- Aldous Huxley
Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers. -- Kevin Sampsell
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. -- John Doerr
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it. -- William Zinsser
Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. -- Louis Dudek
It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that. -- Lynne Tillman
The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. -- Toni Morrison
What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. -- Stephen Graham Jones
There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice. -- Elizabeth Hernandez
There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers. -- Sara Sheridan
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. -- Seamus Heaney
It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world. -- Colm Toibin
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip. -- Elmore Leonard
Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women. -- Horace Walpole
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?' -- Gore Vidal
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers. -- Octavio Paz
The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed. -- Claire Amber
We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought. -- Roger Angell
People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it. -- Karin Slaughter
There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers. -- Peter Schjeldahl
Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that? -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting the training wheels on for writing. -- Hugh Howey
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. -- Robert Morgan
The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing. -- Pankaj Mishra
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. -- Oliver Goldsmith
But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone. -- Wallace Shawn
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. -- Terry Pratchett
Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within. -- Caroline Leavitt

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