Audience Quote by William Landay

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

— J. K. Rowling

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

— Susan Sontag

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

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

— Patrick O'Brian

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

— William S. Burroughs

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

— Garry Wills

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like…

— Brent Runyon

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

— Alice Walker

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 a particular audience.

— August Wilson

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

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

— Marianne Williamson