It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
I don't want to waste my readers' time ever. My readers are very important to me.
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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