I don't think too much about the audience when I'm…

I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the…

— Robin Wasserman

I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading…

— Lois Lowry

I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving,…

— William Sleator

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen…

— Brenda Ueland

I'm still a fanboy geek. I always will be. In many ways, if my work still resonates with the audience, it's because I'm still…

— Len Wein

I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever -…

— Ethan Hawke

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

— J. K. Rowling

When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't…

— Tony Kushner

“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”

— Chuck Wendig

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

— Marsha Norman

It's possible I'm a weird person, you know, and if I could only write for people who are like me, I wouldn't have any…

— Greg van Eekhout

Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you…

— Malcolm Gladwell

We've always read to the kids, every night both kids get books. That's really important, and they love books. Our daughter is obsessed with…

— Jeremiah Brent

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most you can…

— Terry McMillan

We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids are equally…

— Donna Strickland