My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.
For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.
There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
A writer's thoughts can act as an Aladdin's lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life.
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.
One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.
I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge but also entice the reader into the lives of children.
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within.
[from trailer] Hans Hubermann: I'm not such a good reader myself, you know. We'll have to help each other out.
I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.
A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.
