Audience Quote by E. B. White

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.”

— Anonymous

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience…

— Terence Rattigan

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful…

— J. E. Buckrose

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become…

— Theodora Goss

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

— Elizabeth Hernandez

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

— Patrick O'Brian

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and…

— Roger Angell

“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

— Paul Theroux

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. Start…

— E.B. White