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Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

Each person has a literature inside them.

I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.

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

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

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.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.

The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.