I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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.
I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.
I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.
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.
People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
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