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Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response. -- Brandon Sanderson
In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt introduced reader response theory or the transactional view of reading. She asserted that what the reader brings to the reading act - his or her world of experiences, personality, and current frame of mind - is just as important in interpreting the text as what the author writes. According to this view, reading is a fusion of text and reader. -- Carl M. Tomlinson
I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. -- James Ellroy
Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses. -- John Barton
When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me. -- Colleen Hoover
I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives. -- Linda Sue Park
The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.' -- Ayelet Waldman
I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why. -- Diane Wakoski
I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going. -- Ashwin Sanghi
I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character. -- Joe Abercrombie
A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response. -- William Gibson
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text. -- Leni Zumas

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