Audience Quote by Howard Gardner

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

— William Landay

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

— Jonathan Kellerman

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

— Terry Bradshaw

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

— J. A. Jance

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

— Justine Bateman

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William…

— Harlan Coben

Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric…

— Karin Slaughter

I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.

— Lisa Jewell

The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life…

— Pankaj Mishra