Audience Quote by Sylvia Day

Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you…

— Anthony Doerr

Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people…

— Scott Spencer

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

— Jay Asher

If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it.

— Jeremy Larner

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you…

— Berry Gordy

There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a…

— Michelle Dean

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it's really…

— Cassandra Clare

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

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody…

— Anonymous

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke