Author Audience Quotes

The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.

It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.

I have the most loyal readers in the world.

My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.

It's not uncommon for men to show up at my book signings or to send me emails with their thoughts about my books. I've also heard from a number of female readers who were introduced to my works by men in their lives.

If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it is. But for the most part, it's not a huge turnout.

I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings? and (2) thank you, geek girls! I love you all.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

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

I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'