Reader Insight Quotes

I think of myself as the eyes and ears and voice of the reader.

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review.

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well.

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.