Quotes About Engagement

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.

If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.

When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name.

I believe that if the story is fleshed out and the characters more believable, the reader is more likely to take the journey with them. In addition, the plot can be more complex. My characters are very real to me, and I want each of my characters to be different.

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.

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.

I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book.

I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.