Audience Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

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 think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write naturally and…

— Martin Gore

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

— William Landay

You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across…

— Joan Didion

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

— J. K. Rowling

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

— Ann Patchett

I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and…

— Harold Pinter

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

— William S. Burroughs

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

Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has…

— Terrence McNally

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

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have…

— Zoe Kazan