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You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

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.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.