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• My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed… — Eudora Welty
• The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books… — Anthony Burgess
• Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. — Joyce Carol Oates
• With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. — Calvin Trillin
• Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling… — John Updike
• The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist. — August Kleinzahler
• I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new… — Elizabeth Strout
• The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with. — Zadie Smith

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