Audience Quote by Mike Birbiglia

My writing process is very feedback based - I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting... and then…

— Mike Birbiglia

Whatever I'm writing has seemed to be about something I don't feel I could freely express in my everyday life, and stand-up is a…

— Jaboukie Young-White

I stand by what I write and follow through on what I write.

— Arundhati Roy

Normally, with stand-up, it's quite solitary, you write the material on your own, you perform it on your own, it's all very much on…

— Bill Bailey

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

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

Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on…

— Julian Barratt

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend…

— Jonathan Stroud

“Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don't know if people like it or if they are actually reading any…

— Andrew James Pritchard

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across…

— Joan Didion

As a writer, I need a creative outlet and that's why I do stand-up.

— Soupy Sales

The reason it's satisfying for me to write and perform stand-up is because I get to find out who I am. There's a healing…

— Simon Amstell