Connecting with Readers Quotes

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

I've always said my audience is just me. It's somebody out there who's exactly like me and just isn't writing Daring Fireball.

Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted 'prizes' for participation in fundraisers - books and other neat promo items.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

If I could pick one reason why I want to be a writer, it would be connection. In all kinds of ways, I like to be individual and distinct; but when I write, I want to be writing about things that connect me to the people for whom I write.

I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.

The most important thing is readers. I've got a huge Twitter following, but I don't really think it sells books; I don't think a huge Facebook following sells books - although these things aren't bad, of course.

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

I think we in journalism were really late to social networks. We had a built-in network already in terms of our readers, and we didn't capitalize on that.

Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.

I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.

Sometimes, you want to write how you feel, but making people have fun, that's part of it, too.

To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

I like to write about things that fascinate me because I believe that they will also fascinate my readers as well.

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.

You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.

Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do a couple of signings. Nowadays, readers want to feel a connection with an author.

Oh yeah; I love when I'm writing something that makes me cry - that's so cool. If it got me to do that, it's going to get someone else to do that.

My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.