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I'm so focused on trying to craft the story that I'm in my own little world with it and that process. The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

I am an avid reader.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I'm a very slow reader.

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