I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.
I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.
If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.
When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk.