There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it. Dermot Healy
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone. John Cheever
To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft. Alberto Manguel
Every text assumes a reader. Alberto Manguel
I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer! Linda Sue Park
I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself. Karl Marx