The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
Jerzy Kosinski
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
Nicole Krauss
One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything... →
Rachel Kushner
Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
Jen Lancaster
In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment for everyone.
William Lashner
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
Kathryn Lasky
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.
Elmore Leonard
Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.
John Leonard
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
Henning Mankell
As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!
Melissa Marr