About Quote by Guy Gavriel Kay

I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a…

— Tennessee Williams

Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore…

— Kenny Burrell

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being…

— Gertrude Stein

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

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

Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you…

— Anthony Doerr

“One of the shining exceptions in personalities is that writers do not need to be charismatic in their own persons; they are free to…

— Criss Jami

You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's…

— Yukimi Nagano

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

— Marsha Norman