Audience Quote by Jay Asher

If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.

— Stewart O'Nan

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody…

— Anonymous

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their…

— Sylvia Day

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

— Richard Laymon

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

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of…

— Karen Thompson Walker

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

— Wally Lamb

Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular…

— Echo Bodine

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

— Lev Grossman

I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's…

— Ann Packer

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

— William Landay