Audience Quote by Cassandra Clare

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I never think of my work as writing for a young audience, frankly, because I think it risks talking 'down' to them. The idea…

— Soman Chainani

I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for a younger…

— William Gibson

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they…

— Katherine Paterson

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

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big fan of…

— Hope Larson

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience…

— Bruce Springsteen

My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write…

— Taylor Swift

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed…

— Jane Gardam

You have to think about storytelling over the long haul: what is going to engage an audience for, potentially, years and how characters can…

— Jeremy Podeswa

One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So,…

— Matt Groening