The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work...

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life–be she a genteel lady or a serving girl–might find a happier home within the pages of a book.

It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the...

The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person to assume a role.One of the conditions of happy romantic compatibility is,...