Always Quote by Lynn Coady

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 love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside…

— Anne Lamott

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through…

— Rockne S. O'Bannon

You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.

— Jeremy Brett

I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.

— Dick Dale

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

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

— Marsha Norman

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than…

— Blaise Pascal

I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes,…

— Dan Hicks

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

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an…

— John Steinbeck

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

— William Gaddis