If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?
ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.
Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself.
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader. She doesn't want to be deep or highbrow.
When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name.
The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.
