Audience Quote by Geoff Dyer

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

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market.…

— Hilary Mantel

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 ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love…

— Fran Lebowitz

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 don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

— Susan Sontag

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something…

— Ariel Gore

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 made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

— Seth Godin

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

— Garry Disher