“I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.” FirstsSaidI CanIdeasHomeReadingNovelAudienceWrittenCrimeDadMy DadWideBusConductorScots Author:Ian Rankin
“I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read "The Giver" now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.” PeopleThinkingWritingChildrenBookKidsReadingAudienceGiver Author:Lois Lowry
“It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.” HumansStillsCharacterFeelingsFilmReadingWatchesAudienceWrittenComputerDialogueFilmmaker Author:Roger Ebert
“Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.” MindEndsUseReadingVoiceSilenceAudiencePoetActressesTricksDramaticToneRomeAgonyHis LoveLecturesAbsentShakingGrimLecturerYaleMonologuesRuth Author:Louis Auchincloss
“There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.” ImportantShowsReadingAudienceBoringTechniqueTricksUngratefulGood Reading Author:Kevin Sampsell
“I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part of it was having my New Yorker editor and part of it is that was when I started really going on tour and reading things in front of an audience 30 times and then going back in the room and rewriting it and reading it and rewriting it. So you really get the rhythm of the sentences down and you really get the flow down and you get rid of stuff that's not important.” ThinkingKnowsWritingWellsImportantReadingStuffRoomsAudienceFrontsFlowDown AndSentencesRhythmEditorsNew YorkersRewriting Author:David Sedaris
“if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingReadingAudienceWrittenPeriods Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many writers for children say they do not write specifically with a child audience in mind ... This isn't true for me. I am very aware of my audience. Sometimes I can almost see them out there reacting as I write. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, you're going to like this part.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMindChildrenI CanSometimesFeelingsReadingWatchesAudienceWonderfulAdventureMarvelousReactingChores Author:Zilpha Keatley Snyder
“I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what Ive written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.” ThinkingWritingTryingFirstsBookEnoughWould BeReadingAudienceFireToo MuchWrittenStageSettingSettingsScareLaptops Author:Robin Wasserman
“A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.” PeopleWritingMayReadingNovelAudienceFiveHundredResponseNovelistsSolitaryThrilling Author:August Wilson
“Whoever writes a bad review, I put their name on a list, and they're going to get taken care of one day down the road. Otherwise, I don't let it bother me. The truth is, these are review-proof movies. The audiences are going to see it. My audience, our audience, isn't reading Esquire magazine to see if my movie is good or not. They just want to laugh, to be entertained, and lose themselves.” IfsWantWritingCareReadingNamesLosesAudienceLaughingTakenTruth IsOne DayProofListsMagazinesBotherReviewsDown The RoadBad Reviews Author:Brett Ratner
“The experience of reading a novel and watching a television show are quite different. You can't let your audience get ahead of you, and you have to keep the energy and the pace and the drama up. They're very different things.” DifferentShowsReadingEnergyNovelAudienceTelevisionDramaDifferent ThingsPaceTelevision ShowsGet Ahead Author:Michelle Fairley
“Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.” KindShowsWould BeFilmReadingAudienceSeeingJudgingConcertsConformOrchestraSymphonySymphony Orchestras Author:Laurie Anderson
“I never stop running. I'm not one of the weenies who drop out just because the electoral college votes. I'm still in the race. I'm an extremely corrupt candidate and I stress that in case anybody in our reading audience is interested in sending me money.” StillsRunningReadingRaceCasesAudienceCollegeVoteStressCandidatesElectoral College Author:Dave Barry
“I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.” WantNeedsGivingWritingMomentsStoriesOrderReadingBehindsAudienceStudyWrittenPoetTheoryReaderExpectationsCriticalMeaningfulMake SenseBiographiesPoetry ReadingCritical TheoryMeaningful Moments Author:Albert Goldbarth
“I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can't allow their opinions to dictate story direction.” I CanStoriesReadingTalkingOpinionAudienceInternetMembersMessagesBoardsBuyingVocalPercentagesHardcore Author:Grant Morrison
“That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can have enough comprehension, which means the person writing it would've had to have a sense of a someday-audience.” WritingMeanPersonsRealEnoughReadingDifferencesNovelAudienceSomedayJournalComprehension Author:Cris Mazza