Across Quote by Joan Didion

You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across…

— Joan Didion

All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started years before.…

— David Sedaris

I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and…

— Harold Pinter

I don't think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write naturally and…

— Martin Gore

I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving,…

— William Sleator

A lot of people get writer's block, and I think you just have to show up for work, sit down, and be like, 'I'm…

— Brian Fallon

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

— R. Kelly

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have…

— Zoe Kazan

I'm not confident, and yet I'm oddly confident. You have to have a certain amount of ego to be a writer in the first…

— Rosemary Mahoney

You're always hoping you can attract a bigger audience, but at the same time, I'd hate to give up what I write. If I…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“Don't ask yourself if your talented - others answer that question. And if people do accept what you write, let your only conclusion be…

— Lyuben Dilov

You want to take yourself seriously, and you want to make something that you hope will have resonance with the audience. You want to…

— Antoine Fuqua