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.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
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.
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.
I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
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