Readers prefer a world they can relate to.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.
It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.
For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.