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Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.

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 have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

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.

I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I write for myself and hope other people like it.

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

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

I don't write for a particular audience.

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.