#readers

"Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them."

"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."

"Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons."

"The public wants work which flatters its illusions."