I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.
I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.
I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.
I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what I've written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.
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.
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 tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.