Quotes About Author

I've been a Marvel reader since I was just a kid, and I've dreamed of being a Marvel writer for almost as long, so being tapped to officially join the team is truly something.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry.

I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.

There was a time, as a young comic book reader, that I would have proclaimed 'Deadworld' my favorite series.

I love working at Marvel, but it was definitely DC that got me hooked as a reader.

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.