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I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.
Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.
One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.
The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.
My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.
Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.
I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.
The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.
Other kids' parents wouldn't let them read magazines like 'Weird Tales,' but my folks were big readers themselves, so they didn't mind.
There are a lot of wonderful books out there that aren't marketed properly, and readers who might love them never even know they exist.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'
I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
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.
All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
For a major publisher like Time Inc. to embrace Bitcoin sends an important message to both its readers and to the broader media community.
I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.
I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop their newly developed moral muscle.
As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
My hope is that each of the villains I write will have his or her own motivation that readers can understand, whether they agree or disagree.
I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.
Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.
Everyone has an opinion, and it seems that the negative voices can be the loudest, but I chose to focus on the positive comments from readers.
Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting the training wheels on for writing.
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.
My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
My first website went up in 1995. On it I ran a feature called Ask Nicola. Readers would email me questions, I'd answer whichever took my fancy.
Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.
With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.