It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
The best readers come to fiction to be free of. . . all that isn't fiction.
Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you want the reader to follow you. It depends on what effect you're looking for.
I am not a good cue card reader.
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.
If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.
I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.
The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
a good reader makes a good book
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.