Reader Demand Quotes

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.

I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.

The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.

The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published.

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.

I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.