No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.
I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.
I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus.
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.
Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.” {Guy Gavriel Kay}
I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?
With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.
I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.
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What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
