An ideal reader is someone who doesn't know what on Earth you've been doing, who will look at it with absolute freshness and go, 'Oh, so that's what you've been up to.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
I've always been a reader and a writer.
I am an avid reader.
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
When I read, I'm purely a reader.
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
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