You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.
You've got to write for your audience.
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.
Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
One writes what one can, or has to, write.
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.