Good writers get better at their art if they know that their babies are being raised well in the hearts of good readers. The better the reader, the more important it becomes for the writer to do better. The result is a mutually nourishing system.

Writers must write. They have no choice. If they got pregnant with an idea, the baby must be born or they must die together. The question is what happens to the child? Will it be an orphan or will it grow up to become another star to brighten up the night sky?

The outcome is entirely in your hands. A good reader is the only one who can parent a book. A good reader is the reason why a writer writes. The good reader is why a writer goes through hundreds of drafts, spends sleepless nights trying to smoothen out the unnecessary wrinkles in a plot and labors through the urge to give up…

A good reader, therefore is the fertile land of civilization. Books are only harvests. They come and go. The land alone remains. Fertile.