Because Quote by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

— Jane Austen

Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.

— Gary Owens

I used to think this notion of preaching to the choir was a problem, and we kind of use it in a bit of…

— Shaun King

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

— J. K. Rowling

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing…

— Geoff Dyer

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

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

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

— Patrick O'Brian

if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for a younger…

— William Gibson

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

— William Landay

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating…

— Tom Lehrer