Quotes About Author

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

I've never thought about the ages of my readers.

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus.

I'm looking forward to coming to SleuthFest I've heard so many good things about it from my writer friends. I'm looking forward to seeing my buddies and talking to readers who want to know about the way I work.

With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world that readers can enter. It's especially so, I think, for writers of historical fiction.

I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don't see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I'm an optimist - people feel that in my books.

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

We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

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

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 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.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

I really try to focus on my books and readers.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River.'