Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'

- Bharati Mukherjee

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

- Denise Mina

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

- Charlaine Harris

I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus.

- Cecelia Ahern

I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

- Cathleen Schine

I loved 'Lobo' in the '90s, but I think that character is hard to connect with, especially for new readers.

- Cullen Bunn

I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.

- Colson Whitehead

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

- Christina Baker Kline

I like meeting and connecting with readers.

- Christina Baker Kline

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

- Barry Eisler

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

- Albert Camus

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

- Barbara Walters

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

- Aprilynne Pike

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

- Ann Rule

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

- Andrew Greeley

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

- Alex Flinn

I want my readers to find their own way.

- Alexandra Stoddard

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

- Alexandra Stoddard

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.

- Ashwin Sanghi

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

- Andrew Ross Sorkin