“I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.” IfsFeelsI CanRealMatterCharacterActionInterestingReaderKingsRegardMeetingsQueensPlotCompelledTwistsMeeting SomeonePlot Twists Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never did wrong, and unnaturally bad children who never did right. At the end there was always the word MORAL, in big capital letters, as if the readers were supposed to be too blind to find it for themselves, and it had to be put directly across the path for them to stumble over.” IfsChildrenLittlesBookEndsBigsReadingHousePoorEducationMoralPathDogReaderLettersBlindMeetingsSupposed To Be Author:Annie Fellows Johnston
“The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.” WritingFacesChallengesFictionCareersReaderExpectationsMeetingsGenre Author:Julia Quinn
“Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!” WritingReaderMeetingsBeerSolitaryGoing OutSigning Author:F. Paul Wilson
“I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to me, and I'm able to send them things. I love meeting them in person, and even if it's only for a moment I love having that physical, touching interaction.” IfsWritingPersonsMomentsAbleReaderMeetingsGenuineTouchingInteractionThings I Love Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.” WritingHateReaderMy FamilyI HateMeetingsEncountersExhilarating Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!” I CanEventsReaderMeetings Author:Jodi Picoult
“I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's some alteration that might possibly inflect the person positively.” WorldBelievePersonsMightHappensNextI BelieveReaderMeetingsNext DayPositivelyAlterations Author:George Saunders