Audience Quote by Joan Didion

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

— Joan Didion

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

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

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

I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're…

— Patrick deWitt

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

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 have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

— Pattiann Rogers

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

— J. K. Rowling

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

— Marsha Norman

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 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