I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
Barbara W. Tuchman
When I read, I'm purely a reader.
Anne Tyler
I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.
Sarah Vowell
What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
Len Wein
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
Mary Wesley
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
Vivienne Westwood
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
Walter Jon Williams
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
Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.
Will the reader turn the page?
Catherine Drinker Bowen