People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills.
I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners compare performance with text and with other performances. Good poets use the full resources of language.
Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.
The best books come from someplace deep inside. . . . Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.
If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.
Nature is my religion. And my desire. . . my ambition. . . the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it. . . . . . if I can only get the two acquainted.
While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.
Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek. ' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.
Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.
I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative, vast source of spare-time amusement and entertainment. I recently heard a frightening statistic: there are less than one million true readers in this country (those who read every day instead of one book per year on a beach). Terrifying.
If you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want.