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

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 really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

I don't write for a particular audience.

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

You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

I do not write for an audience.

You've got to write for your audience.