Readership Quotes · Page 3

There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in…

— Sarnath Banerjee

You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

— Anna Quindlen

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

— Paul Conrad

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write…

— Jonah Peretti

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing…

— Philip Levine

I don't like to think of my readership as 'fans,' a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm…

— Grant Morrison

“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a…

— Tessa Dare

The experience that a publication creates for its audience is the very essence of that publication's brand - and without deep engagement,…

— John Battelle

I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves…

— David Farland

A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of…

— Lorin Stein

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and…

— Robin Wasserman

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience…

— William Monahan

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much…

— Anonymous

I think continuity is the devil. I think it's constricting and restrictive, I think it's alienating and off-putting, and it inflicts an…

— Matt Fraction

The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer…

— J. G. Ballard

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

— Joshua Ferris

I think it's the next thing, getting out of the comfort-zone readership, that at some point you have to try and break…

— Drew Magary

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to…

— Edmund White

Europeans still read rather than watching TV or listening to their clergyman tell them how to vote. The European magazines are far…

— Peter Menzel

Increasingly we're seeing these ultra-partisan sites getting larger and larger readerships because people are self-selecting themselves into communities.

— Edward Snowden

Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and…

— Jessica Valenti

The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long…

— John Leo

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we…

— Kenneth Koch