Bond Quote by Chris Claremont

Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

— George V. Higgins

Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the…

— Leni Zumas

I try to create characters people want to sit with, even if nothing is happening.

— Jason Reynolds

I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get…

— Jim Cummings

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm of it.…

— Joan Didion

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

— Avi

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

— Dean Koontz

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a…

— Rachel Kushner

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

— Suzanne Brockmann

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of…

— Sara Zarr

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love…

— Eleanor Catton