“I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that "reader" is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.” IfsKindStoriesReaderMoodOddConsidering Author:George Saunders
“In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."” LooksKindAbleHappenedReaderOrdinaryDistanceOddAddresses Author:Paul Auster
“Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.” HavensReaderBritishOddClueHunches Author:Seamus Heaney