Audience Quote by Jonathan Stroud

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

— William Landay

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways,…

— Eric Bogosian

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should…

— Paullina Simons

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

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

When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able…

— Prince

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

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from…

— Paulo Coelho

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen…

— Brenda Ueland

Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you…

— Colson Whitehead

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like…

— Brent Runyon