Audience Quote by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

— Gore Vidal

“Writing for enjoyment of expression does not need an audience of more than one.”

— Edith Schaeffer

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

— Edward Abbey

I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they…

— Garrison Keillor

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

— E. B. White

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no…

— Cyril Connolly

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

— JoAnn Ross

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

— Khaled Hosseini

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

— Jorge Luis Borges

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

— Virginia Woolf

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

— Samuel Johnson