Audience Quote by Ann Patchett

I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell.

— Sudha Murty

I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know…

— Ursula Hegi

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market.…

— Hilary Mantel

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

— Irvine Welsh

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

— J. K. Rowling

You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read…

— Andy Weir

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

— Susan Sontag

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

— Les Parrott

I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies…

— Emily Rodda

You're always hoping you can attract a bigger audience, but at the same time, I'd hate to give up what I write. If I…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett