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I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers. -- Armistead Maupin
I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see. -- Zosia Mamet
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. -- Jon Krakauer
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers. -- Avi
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. -- Leon Uris
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career. -- Nora Roberts
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing. -- Kevin Powers
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. -- Katherine Paterson
Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it. -- Kristan Higgins
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world. -- Donald Ray Pollock
I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad. -- Justin Cronin
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader. -- Neil Cross
I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it. -- Helen Dunmore
The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing. -- James Salter
I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents. -- Rick Riordan
Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself? -- Jerry Spinelli
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. -- Margaret Mahy
There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You're not praying to a god, but you're almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That's what books do: they're an invitation to readers. -- Ruth Ozeki
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails... -- William Petersen
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing? -- Ed McBain
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. -- Roxane Gay
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. -- Khaled Hosseini
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. -- Samuel Johnson
I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing. -- Toni Morrison
Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift. -- Michael J. Kannengieser
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing. -- Seth Godin
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers. -- R. A. Salvatore
We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog. -- J. A. Konrath
The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent. -- Sara Sheridan
I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers. -- Carol Anshaw
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen. -- Louis Begley
The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing -- Isabel Allende
Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing. -- Shon Mehta
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. -- Russell Baker
I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly. -- Meg Wolitzer
I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers. -- Rick Riordan
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers. -- Garry Disher
I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing." -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again. -- Iain Lawrence
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result. -- Louis Sachar
Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away. -- William Zinsser
It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does. -- Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think. -- Amish Tripathi
Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right! -- Michael Scott
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. -- Wietse Venema
We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions. -- Tim Hetherington
The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing. -- Pankaj Mishra
I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting the training wheels on for writing. -- Hugh Howey
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist. -- Ted Dekker
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. -- Ben Okri
I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with. -- Veronica Roth
Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension. -- Joe Posnanski
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. -- Lee Child
Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today. -- Jeffery Deaver

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