Quotes About Audience

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do a couple of signings. Nowadays, readers want to feel a connection with an author.

Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.

You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.

I can't retire. My readers won't let me.

Should a story be readily told in a PG-13 fashion, it should be for creative, not business, reasons.

It is much easier to do a film about something that the audience readily knows about - say, cricket. It is much more difficult to write a film based on golf.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.