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

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

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 a particular audience.

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

I do not write for an 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.

I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.

If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.

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!