A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

- Patricia T. O'Conner

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

- Patricia T. O'Conner

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

- Patricia T. O'Conner

In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy of the liter…

- Patricia T. O'Conner