Books Quote by Christopher Bram

“There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.”

— Elizabeth Hernandez

I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're…

— Patrick deWitt

“From the writer's perspective, audience is always an act of the imagination.”

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

“Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.”

— Carol Hovsepian

“Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.”

— Gary Reilly

“Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Write for the Audience of One”

— Jeff Gerke

“The job of the writer is to change the way the reader sees the world.”

— after Richard Ford

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ”

— Katarina Anhava

“Let the readers do some of the work themselves”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

— Gore Vidal