Gayle Forman Quotes

If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then the reader shifts his loyalties.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

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.

Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

In general, when I'm writing, I concentrate on the story itself, and I leave it to other people, such as agents and publishers, to work out who it's for.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.

As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.