…nobody gets in closer to a reader than a novelist, not even his mother.
Anthony Trollope
I feel you out there, reader. This is the only kind of intimacy I’m comfortable with. Just the two of us, here in the dark.
Jeffrey Eugenides
It was only through writing to my mother that I made any kind of sense of my life. We shared an affinity for flora and fauna, a love of literature and also, she was the one person, other than myself, who believed that one day I would be a writer.
Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
The love between a reader and a writer is never celebrated. It cannot be proven to exist.”
Patricia Duncker
And it equally describes what happens during a part of the writing process: the deliberate making of room in the text for the reader to exist inside the fiction.
Timothy Findley