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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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.
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 never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.
You've got to write for your audience.
You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!