The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
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.
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
The crucial thing in any work of any kind is that it must be a gift - the reader must possess it even more than the person who wrote it. It must be given completely.
Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.