“Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.” PeopleThinkingShouldMadeBookEndsChoicesReaderWingsSpellsLaurelsRight Choices Author:Aprilynne Pike
“I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.” GivingBelieveMadeBookWinningI BelieveReadyReaderI Believe InExpectingBores Author:Carlos Fuentes
“I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.” IfsKnowsWantWritingFirstsMadeBookReadingWonderfulReader Author:Neil Gaiman
“[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.” WayFeelsMadeWomenReaderReach OutGood Friend Author:Amy Dickinson
“The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does -- or even should -- contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it.” KnowsShouldLittlesDoeHas BeensMadeBookRealSelfReasonCharacterStoriesHandsMightFacesFunReaderPicksFamiliarFactorsSpotsTitlesReferencingFamiliar FacesBook Titles Author:Charles de Lint
“Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, "That were to consider it too curiously.” MadeEnoughInterestingPoetReaderProtestRhetoricConsideringObserversUpside DownSofasFooling AroundThings Upside Down Author:Randall Jarrell