I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.
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Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
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.
When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to 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.
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
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 think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.
I always figured there would be a kid audience and an adult audience, and there is. That's true for 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter.' And 'Maximum Ride,' for sure. In particular what happens is a lot of parents share the books with their kids, and the mom has read it, and the kids, and they talk about it.
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.