“I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingYearsBookStoriesSeemsGirlPleasureLevelsTalkingBoysWonderfulReaderSixSellsCopiesSix Year Olds Author:Emily Rodda
“Fiercely original and uncommonly lovely, The Witch's Boy is equal parts enchanting and haunting. Kelly Barnhill is master of truly potent and unruly magic; luckily for readers, she chooses to use her powers for good.” UseBoysMagicMastersReaderEqualOriginalsLovelyWitchHauntingEnchantingUnruly Author:Anne Ursu
“I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.” ThinkingKindBookActionSituationBoysImagineReaderHandleAll KindsBored Book:Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's Source: Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
“I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.” KindBookHardStoriesReadingFoundBoysSonReaderComicFascinatingMy SonReading BooksComic BookMy BoysLove To ReadBook Readers Author:Virginia Madsen
“I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like me, in environments like me.And then I knew something about science that your New York Times reader would be interested in. So I was thinking about it in multiple ways: I'll connect with the people who grew up like me first, and then the New York Times reader will be interested in the science because it's so good and they want to be "in the know."” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFirstsWould BeWantedGuyThreeBoysEnvironmentNew YorkGrewReaderGrew UpConnectedLike MeMultipleNew York Times Author:Carl Hart
“I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.” BookBigsKidsImaginationPartyBoysReaderHorseRidingMy ImaginationCaptured Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest furiously French kissing when I was in seventh grade. I walked in, saw it, and went, "No way," backed out, composed myself, and went back in, and it was still going on. And the experience of seeing that was actually very deep.” WayStillsBoysSawsSeeingReaderKissingGradesPriestsAltarsVery DeepNunSeventh GradeFrench Kiss Author:George Saunders