For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it’s the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic...

He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

[Blog post, March 10, 2014]

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way

Here is the world. Don’t be afraid for wonderful and terrible things will happen. Simply remember to breath.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

I was first a reader and without readers what would be the point in writing. For those of you who love a good story, thank you for being willing to read what we writerly folk...

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It’s the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Everything you read, becomes a part of your life.

So you went from one reader to two readers?” you’d be absolutely correct. And after I had congratulated you on your keen guess, I’d thank you for being 50% of my reading base.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they’ll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we’ve promised.

Because often it is the reader of adventures who saves the world. Because no matter how bad things look, or how rough things get, the reader keeps turning the pages… A reader never walks away...

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things...

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn’t really want to...

Writers are disguised “sorcerers”. Armed with their mighty pens, they cast spells on their readers using words that could pierce right through the heart and soul. If our writings moved you, made you cry, made...

Writing is…. being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense,...

Aren’t we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they’ll tell us that we make sense?

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer’s job.

His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon him, as a glutton can shift upon his cook the...

People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.

What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.

What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to...

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

This little book has been written in the hope that it may appeal to several classes of readers.Not infrequently I have been asked by friends of different callings in life to recommend them some book...

A good reader has the power to move the world.

Your writing can be chosen by one publisher and hated by all readers, or it can be rejected by one publisher and loved by all readers. Most of the time it’s somewhere in between, but...

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

As the hero learns, readers learn too.

Bookish folk aren’t what they used to be. Introverted, reserved, studious. There was a time when bookish folk would steer clear of trendy bars, dinner occasions and gatherings. Any social or public encounters would be...