The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

ALL LEADERS ARE READERS.

Tout livre a pour collaborateur son lecteur.

The reader collaborates with the author in every book.

Some have argued that as language is the medium of knowledge, that which comes in the form of language constitutes a text; since language is interpreted by the individual, the reading by the individual gives meaning to the text; therefore each time a text is read by a different individual it acquires a fresh meaning. Taken to its logical conclusion, this denies any generally accepted meaning of a text and is implicitly a denial of attempts at historical representation or claims to relative objectivity, since the meaning would change with each reading. However, the prevalent views are more subtle.

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes — even in a scientific text.

No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

I am part of everything that I have ever read.

The writer and her language should be the humble servant of the reader. To me, the act of writing is not fulfilled until it is read. The words need to be read, digested, and assembled within the context of the reader's mind and experiences in order to be complete. In other words, every reader is "reading" a different story, because every reader brings a different set of experiences and sensibilities to the story.

I believe all of us are constantly writing the text-that-is-the-world.

Leases, writs, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.

"The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost; a text's unity lies not in its origin but in its destination. Yet this destination cannot any longer be personal: the reader is without history, biography, psychology; he is simply that someone who holds together in a single field all the traces by which the written text is constituted…Classic criticism has never paid any attention to the reader; for it, the writer is the only person in literature…we know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. [Final passage in "The Death of the Author," in Image-Music-Text, by Roland Barthes, Trans. Stephen Heath (1977)]"