Because of the nature of my brand, it's so important our readers know it really is me behind my keyboard.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.
Oh, readers. If only you knew what we've gone through for you.
A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.
Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is th...
We have created a culture of reading poverty in which a vicious cycle of aliteracy has the potential to devolve into illiteracy for many students. By allowing students to pass through our classrooms without learning to love reading, we are creating a...
Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it, they condescend to it, they stand in large groups with their backs to it - because they're afraid of it. They're afrai...
When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to ...
The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. ...
[Women's magazines]ignore older women or pretend that they don’t exist; magazines try to avoid photographs of older women, and when they feature celebrities who are over sixty, ‘retouching artists’ conspire to ‘help’ beautiful women look mo...
New Adult is a label that is condescending to readers and authors alike. It implies that the books act as training wheels between Young Adult and Adult. For the New Adult books that are particularly childish, the label implies that they are a step ab...
The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.
I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.
I can't go on, I'll go on.
