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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!
You've got to write for your audience.
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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 never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.
I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.
I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.