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You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

I don't want to waste my readers' time ever. My readers are very important to me.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.