Being silly Quote by Vikram Seth

I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued.

— Joseph Boyden

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

— Nicholas Sparks

I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.

— Chang-Rae Lee

Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.

— Michael Koryta

The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly…

— Jim Goad

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

— Sarah Mlynowski

I'm not a reader myself, so I don't expect anyone else to be.

— Paul Gilbert

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 have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

— Rick Riordan