Audience Quote by Sterling K. Brown

I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We're reminded of these real parts of ourselves.

— Tracy K. Smith

I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.

— John Lanchester

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing…

— Geoff Dyer

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

literature is the record of our discontent.

— Virginia Woolf

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by…

— Elizabeth George

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

— Marsha Norman

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There's no better feeling as a writer than to see your piece going beyond what you can have ever imagined. And a wonderful way…

— Tom Kitt

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

— Helen Keller

What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons…

— Anonymous