Audience Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Audience Books Literature Writing
In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me. — William Landay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive. — Raphael Saadiq Copy Share Image
If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl. — An Na Copy Share Image
The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I feel I have been playing all primary characters. And if your character forms a connect with the audience, it doesn't matter if you… — Angad Bedi Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
