Quotes About Audience

I'm so happy that the first time Russell and I saw 'Annette' with an audience was at the Cannes Film Festival, and even more pleased that it got such a strong positive reaction because that's pretty much the top honor when it comes to screening a film.

'Ragtime' was the most magical show that I've done. I had an incredible experience with that, with the show itself, with the cast, with the audience. The response to that show - my God, it really blew me away, the reactions to that show, the way it changed their lives and altered their thinking, their own self-discovery.

I really think that some of the best heels are also those people that can really get reactions as babyfaces, too.

I'm very conscious of what I consider to be the first audience of any movie that I make. It's those people whose reactions I'm most attentive to. They're the ones who will tell me whether I've done my job or not.

I just love to see the crowd reactions when I drop certain songs. There's some songs that you just know are going to pull out some serious emotions with people, and I love seeing that.

When I'm in the ring, I can hear the reactions and know the people are enjoying themselves.

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

I write things in my house, and hopefully there's a reader out there who enjoys it and has an experience with it, but that's very different than a performer on stage, where there's an immediate dance with the audience. It's incredibly powerful.

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write for yourself, then why don't you just keep it under the bed,' so I definitely write for other people.

I'm supremely grateful and seriously pleased that readers enjoy my words.

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

I've never thought about the ages of my readers.

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.