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I think it'd be pretty juvenile to make a record as a reaction to my critics.

Most claims you read about psychological manipulation are rubbish.

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.

I've always liked an easygoing, colloquial style. I like the kind of reviewer who is essentially a fellow reader, an enthusiast, a fan.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

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

As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.

As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics.