If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Lesson Plan

What message, if any, is the book expressing about the relationship between the writer and the reader in this part?

In Chapter 8, Silas Flannery writes extensively about his relationship as a writer with the readers in his life, particularly Ludmilla, the boy scouts, and Lotaria. With each encounter, he grows more and more tense, given his writer’s block. However, he emphasizes that the connection between the reader and the writer is crucial to the writing process. “Every day, before starting work, I look at the woman in the deck chair: I say to myself that the result of the unnatural effort to which I subject myself, writing, must be the respiration of this reader, the...