When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.
There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).
With ‘The Angel’s Game’, there was a lot of pressure from the expectations – expectations from the book industry and from readers; it’s natural.
I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.
One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don’t the stories lack complexity? Don’t the readers get bored?
I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.
My whole damn family was nice. I don’t think I’ve imagined it. It’s true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.
Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don’t have to be led in their reading.
I don’t want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.
If you’re writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you’d better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don’t populate them with characters that readers can care about.
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as ‘Thorn Birds’ Fever.
I think that’s a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.
My job is to entertain the readers in such a manner that, when they reach the end of the book, they feel like they’ve gotten their money’s worth.
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.
The memoir industry is, what’s the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published.
