A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.
It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.