Acceptance Quote by Joshua Mohr

I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would realize sometimes…

— John C. Maxwell

“Books, by their very nature and variety, help us grow in empathy for others, in tolerance and awareness. But they should increase our skepticism…

— Michael Dirda

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

— David Levithan

“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a…

— Jonathan Franzen

When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.

— Rebecca Stead

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly

— Jen Knox

Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more…

— Steve Erickson

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story,…

— Dean Koontz

I think there has to be an empathic strike between the reader and the protagonist. There has to be something said or known that…

— Michael Connelly

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

— Akhil Sharma

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

— Judy Blume

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding…

— Khaled Hosseini