Audience Quote by Hilary Mantel

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

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing…

— Geoff Dyer

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis

Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort…

— Dan Poynter

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the…

— Larry Winget

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it…

— David McCullough

Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style,…

— Cassandra Clare

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett

I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies…

— Emily Rodda