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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.
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.
I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.
If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.