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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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.
Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.
Everyone has an opinion, and it seems that the negative voices can be the loudest, but I chose to focus on the positive comments from readers.
I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.
Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.
The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.
I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.
I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place.
The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
My hope is that each of the villains I write will have his or her own motivation that readers can understand, whether they agree or disagree.
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.
I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.
Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
I've never listened to any of my audiobooks, but I'm very, very happy that they've received such excellent feedback from readers!
With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
The columnists have a very personal relationship with their readers, and the readers deserve to hear directly from the columnists.
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.
Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing.
There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.
I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.
I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.
There are a lot of wonderful books out there that aren't marketed properly, and readers who might love them never even know they exist.
PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.
I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.
Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.
Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'
All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.
We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.
If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it.