Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.
So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.