Audience Quote by Elizabeth Hernandez

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

— Anonymous

“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us,…

— Tobias Wolff

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

— after Richard Ford

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?”

— Adam Langer

“Write for the Audience of One”

— Jeff Gerke

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

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

“Writers are readers, too.”

— Bea Cannon

“A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read.”

— George R.R. Martin

“As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it.”

— WH Auden