“Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.” IfsShouldWritingQualityAudienceHonestPrayingFactorsCraftsBeginnersReadership Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir
“The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.” WorldAudienceTelevisionProductsHugeElementsPaperAnxietyNewsVoteMarketingWidePsychologicalMagazinesConsumersLandscapeZoneSoftwareCashBootsPassiveTechnologicalBallotsPresent DayElectorateReadershipWeaponryOpportunistPolling Author:J. G. Ballard
“When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art.” WayGivingWritingArtActorsAudiencePoetPerformancesSingersNot InterestedReadership Author:James Arthur