Quotes on Reads

The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are put there by the reader. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. That's how literature functions.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.