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

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

I don't write for a particular audience.

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

I do not write for an audience.

I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.

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

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 doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.