Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do…

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

— Robert Crais

Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're…

— Jacqueline Woodson

In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every…

— Agatha Christie

“There are more writers who read than readers who write.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use the F…

— Ellen Hopkins

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and…

— Robert Greene

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of…

— Anonymous

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

— Albert Camus

“I think I've been very lucky. The readers who write to me say they like the characters and the sense of a real world,…

— Sophie Weston

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read.”

— George R.R. Martin

Respect and love your readers. Write for the reader.

— Janet Evanovich

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been…

— Isabel Allende

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers…

— Amish Tripathi