Makes reading the guy's work an ambiguous thing at best.

It's worth far more to have people read your work.

One thing we do is have the writer reading his work.

The same is true of these writers reading their own work.

In preparation for the meeting, Smith had read her work.

How did it feel to be publicly reading their mother's work?

You write, people read your work and it matters to them.

Because he's intensely private, but anyone who's read his work knows him very well.

They've given me the chance to have people read my work.

They were agreed upon simply so we could read one another's work.