Appear Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're…

— Judy Blume

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

— Irvine Welsh

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

— J. K. Rowling

I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is to write…

— Sally Rooney

The TV audience is way bigger than a book audience, and no matter what I do, I'm always thinking if this will help people…

— Michael Connelly

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

— Ann Patchett

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense…

— Arnold Bennett

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.

— Andrew Wylie

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

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

— Henry David Thoreau

“I've read way too much on the overused/misunderstood buzzwords "Show, don't tell!" that I'm convinced all novels should now be picture books”

— Michael Kroft

Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.

— Karin Slaughter