I go to the automatic reader and if it says not a winner, there's a trash receptacle there and I drop it in.
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
I am an avid reader of Sidney Sheldon thriller novels.
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
I trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that's part of the wonder of reading.
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
I divide all readers into two classes those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
My goal is to invite readers to think along with me and draw their own conclusions.
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
There's a really generous readership with YA.
I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.
I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
I can't control what a reader takes from a story.
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.
As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
