I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
Hanna Schmitz: It doesn't matter what I feel. It doesn't matter what I think. The dead are still dead.
Palm Reader: [reading Watson's palm] I see two men. Two men. Brothers! Not in blood, but in bond.
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of...
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.
My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.
I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
Little Voice is a story where every reader, young or old, can feel inspired by its positive, inspiring and motivating message.
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.
What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.
If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it.
