“Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel.”
“The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way”
“I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.”
“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
“I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”