Almost perfect Quote by Roger Angell

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead…

— Julia Cameron

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

— Randy Alcorn

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

“There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.”

— Elizabeth Hernandez

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.”

— Anonymous

I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

— Anne Sexton

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

“Writers need readers and readers need writers”

— Caroline James

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear…

— Saul Bellow

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

— Isabel Allende

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave…

— Hal Zina Bennett

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

— Maurissa Tancharoen