Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
We need a leader, not a reader.
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.
I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
I don't inflict horrors on readers.
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you.
Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.
The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.
I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.
There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader.
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.
Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.
I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.
