Audience Quote by William Gibson

I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving,…

— William Sleator

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

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

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

— J. K. Rowling

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection…

— Amiri Baraka

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience…

— Stephen Greenblatt

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

— Irvine Welsh

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

— Susan Sontag

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If…

— Melissa Rosenberg