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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

I don't write for a particular audience.

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

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.

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.

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.

I do not write for an audience.