Band Quote by George Bernard Shaw

There is sort of a hobbit-like element to a lot of British people. They don't want to be told something until they have worked…

— Daniel Hannan

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

— Patrick O'Brian

There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a…

— Bharati Mukherjee

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

— Malcolm Lowry

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

— Irvine Welsh

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen.…

— Peter Baynham

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

— Alice Walker

I've never paid much attention to those who have written me off.

— Humza Yousaf

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

Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

— Claire Tomalin

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

— J. K. Rowling

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

— Gertrude Stein