I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.
Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.
I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.
I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me.
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.