What Happens in the Reader's Mind

"A writer's talking about what he or she is capable of, like a writer's talking about the worth of his or her own work, is a pretty good way for that writer to start sounding like a pompous poseur. Above all things, the story, the poem, the text is -- and is only -- what its words make happen in the reader's mind. And all readers are not the same. Any reader has the right to say of any text: "But