Audience Quote by Pankaj Mishra

That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them, it feels…

— Lucas Mann

I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know…

— Ursula Hegi

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

— J. K. Rowling

You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read…

— Andy Weir

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what…

— William Least Heat-Moon

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with…

— Isabel Allende

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

— William S. Burroughs

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

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

— Susan Sontag

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I mean, I…

— Cheryl Strayed

I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages…

— Elmore Leonard

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They…

— Errol Morris