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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
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.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.
You've got to write for your audience.
Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.
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.
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.