Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.
It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Probably, subliminally, I think of the reader as a kind of collaborator. I don't want to say something for the reader that the reader could have said for himself.
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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