What matters is not how the writer felt while writing it but how the reader will feel while reading it.

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• The value of a piece of writing depends on whether the reader finds it good, not on how much effort the writer put into it. JFJacob Falkovich6 Jan 2025
• What matters is a point of view and human intuition about what the experience should be, which needs to come through, more than taste. LCLoredana Crisan24 Jun 2026
• A writer's audience does not carry from one book to the next: every book is another startup you have to make happen from scratch. MLMichael Lewis15 Dec 2025
• Effective writing requires empathy for the reader, not only thought about what you want to say. JZJulie Zhuo27 Feb 2023
• Writing that deserves a reader's attention is always the product of effort by the person who wrote it. TCTed Chiang31 Aug 2024

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