The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
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.
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
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 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.
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.