We often experience that something we read and conclude is not what was written, and its real meaning is still hidden between the lines. Who is to be blamed for it? The writer? The reader? Or the difference in the state of minds of the two?

A writer lives in his words, so if his message is not delivered, we have killed him.

JOHN POWELL says "A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows."
So what does he mean by that? Does he mean that a person grows as much as he aims in his life? Or does he mean, allow yourself the opportunity to live the life you desire. Do not set limitations on yourself that are based on someone else negativity. He said what he had to, and we as readers conclude what we have to, it may or may not be the essence of it.

The French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes in his famous essay DEATH OF THE AUTHOR criticizes the method of reading and his criticism relies on aspects of the author's identity, his or her political views, religion, psychology, or other biographical or personal attributes to distill meaning from the author's work. In this type of criticism
the experiences and biases of the author serve as a definitive "explanation" of the text. For Barthes, this method of reading may be apparently tidy and convenient, but is actually sloppy and flawed.

According to him "a text's unity lies not in its origins," or its creator, "but in its destination," or its audience. So if the destination is shadowed by the mindset of the audience, the origin of the work is blotted, thus the creator is unheard for it is said that words are not known by its writer, the writer is known by his words.

If the mind of the reader is confined to something which is a stereotype, and the writer is more agile in his work there might be a huge communication gap between the two, but the reader would not be blamed, it is the writer who will be questioned. Since in the 21st century everything is marketed, let us imagine that LITERATURE is a huge market, and if its a huge market the writers will certainly be the sellers, their work as a product and the readers will take the place of the buyers, now as we all know that in a market the buyer is the god , hence going by that cliché the readers will take the place of the almighty, and just like a buyer it will be easy of him to blame the product, rather thinking about his loopholes.

It is safe to say that the reader and writer are connected by a thin invisible thread of words, and the author hangs in a deep pit of our conclusion it is on us to lower him down that pit safely by understanding what he wants to say or just cut him down and let him fall and kill him coz he is actually living and holding onto it. They say if you cant go to places, read a book! The author will take you to a mind-trip across not just the world but the whole galaxy, such is the power of a written text, but the question remains "are we ready to step into that magical place?"