Almost Quote by Hugh Howey

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

I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum,…

— Dean Koontz

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to…

— Colson Whitehead

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.

— Ava Max

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the…

— Peter Sotos

I'm very conscious that I'm an entertainer. Something like 73 percent of my readers are college graduates, so you can't condescend to people. You've…

— James Patterson

“I'm more interested in becoming a commercial writer, and unfortunately, commentary on my writing from a bunch of other unpublished writers is of little…

— John Scalzi

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience…

— Stephen Greenblatt

I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is to write…

— Sally Rooney

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