The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
– Thomas Wolfe
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- The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. – Tom Wolfe
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- A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer. – Uma Nnenna
- A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. – Gerard de Marigny
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
- Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes? – Mehmet Murat ildan
- A writer’s pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur. – Harlan Ellison
- If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads. – Sherman Alexie
- No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself. – Romain Rolland
- [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. – David Foster Wallace
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- One reads so as not to believe everything one reads. – Aaron Haspel
- Somewhere Chesterton writes–I think it is Chesterton–that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to. – Alec Wilkinson
- My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. – Gene Wolfe
- Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be! – Kamand Kojouri
- Primary goal for the author: ‘Write what you mean to say’Primary goal for the reader: ‘Read what the author actually writes – Falcon Dove
- A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. – George RR Martin
- Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world. – KJ Kilton
- Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world. – KJ Kilton
- What a writer brought to a book didn’t matter as much as what the reader contributed. – Lisa Morton
- A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. – Samuel Johnson
- I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt. – Neil Gaiman
- Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. – Brandon Sanderson
- No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author. – Neil Gaiman
- To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. – Johnny Rich
- To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. – Johnny Rich
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
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- Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used for or against you within a story by a writer – Jazz Feylynn
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- A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. – William Faulkner
- I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written. – Dean Wesley Smith
- Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write. – Dejan Stojanovic
- A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper. – Christy Hall
- The writer-¦ begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity. – Phyllis Rose
- No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it. – Irwin Shaw
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- The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer. – AE Poynor
- We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful. – Marc Aug