Audience Quote by William Gaddis

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

— Marsha Norman

A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters. It's not…

— Richard Flanagan

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad…

— Eleanor Catton

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.

— Clare B. Dunkle

“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against the most…

— Minae Mizumura

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.

— Scott Westerfeld

“The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.”

— Eric T. Benoit

“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”

— Chuck Wendig

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

— H. L. Mencken