"I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader."
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"That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia."
"Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity."
"I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader."
"If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is."
"And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted"
"If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that."
"There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were."
"The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream."
"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."
"You've got to be a good date for the reader."
"You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean."
"I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting."