Reader Assumption Quotes

'Batman' readers are the smartest readers in the world. I don't have to hold their hands.

Sometimes I worry that people who read my fiction think that I am making some kind of thesis statement.

Every text assumes a reader.

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make it. That research has gone into it and we say "This is a history of the civil war, this is a biography of Lincoln" whatever. But you don't make any such supposition when you say "This is a historical novel."

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.