Quotes About Engagement

Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.

I like meeting and connecting with readers.

If you don't go talk to your boss, if you don't go talk to your mentors, if you don't go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don't know. And they're not mind readers.

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.

One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do. I do think this is an area where journalism sometimes falls short. We describe a really grim situation but don't really explain to people what they can do about it.

It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.

We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.

I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read - to find out the end of the story.

I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

Don't send out a newsletter just to send out a newsletter. One newsletter a year that is really interesting is more beneficial than 12 that are boring. If you write two or three boring newsletters in a row, your readers will start to think you write boring books.

Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.

Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer.

You need books to read and readers for books.

I have the most loyal readers in the world.

I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.

The columnists have a very personal relationship with their readers, and the readers deserve to hear directly from the columnists.

I will do everything in my power to keep my readers.

My job is to entertain the readers in such a manner that, when they reach the end of the book, they feel like they've gotten their money's worth.

For a lot of readers these days, a book is something you have to agree or disagree with. But you can't agree with a novel. For my generation, it was assumed that a book is a dramatic thing, that the eye of the book is not telling you what to think.

I go to a lot of conferences and conventions to meet with readers directly.