Audience Quote by Gore Vidal

There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.

— Frank Peretti

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

— E. B. White

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

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters

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

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

— J. K. Rowling

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

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.

— Andrew Wylie

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

— Julian Barnes

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.

— William Monahan

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