Best writing & audience Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

“The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.”

Thinking Feels Writing Ends Law Order Lost Given Watches Audience Middle Crime Structure Episodes Longevity Starks Law And Order Centerpieces

Author:Danny Pino

“I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.”

Thinking Writing Trying Kind Stories Audience

Author:Brent Runyon

“You've got to write for your audience.”

Writing Audience

Author:John Ratzenberger

“I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.”

People Ifs Want Feels Writing Humans Persons Problem Audience Fairs Luck Bounds Superiors Dumb Heavenly Inferiors Intervention Comical Paraphrase Human Problems Dumb Luck

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.”

“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!”

Ifs Knows Should Writing Mind Care Stuff Audience

Author:Paullina Simons

“If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.”

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Author:Tabitha Soren

“People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand?”

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“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.”

People Thinking Writing Children Book Kids Reading Audience Giver

Author:Lois Lowry

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

Writing Mind Book Audience Particular Please Please Me

Author:William Landay

“The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.”

Writing Audience Internet

Author:Randall Munroe

“I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.”

Writing Made Real Seems Stuff Audience Real Life Life Experience Real Life Experiences

Author:Rebel Wilson

“I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.”

Writing Stories Culture Audience Focus India Sacred Like Me Symbols Chinese Ritual

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.”

Writing Careers Audience Concern Painful

Author:Marsha Norman

“If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.”

Ifs Writing Important Speak Audience College Communicate Wrestling Back To College

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.”

Feels Writing Book Different Audience Tvs Book Writing

Author:Josh Lieb

“You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.”

People Ifs Writing Grows Audience Doors

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.”

Writing Facts Audience Mass Sentences

Author:Michael Hastings

“I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one.”

Writing Years Audience Ten Independence Vermont Audience Of One

Author:Thomas Naylor

“I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's not my subject, and I don't want anyone I've had sex with to write about it. Plus, you're in front of an audience, and they picture wherever you're writing about. I'm 52; no one in the audience wants to picture that.”

People Want Writing Sex Audience Subjects Fronts Plus

Author:David Sedaris

“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.”

Ifs Should Writing Quality Audience Honest Praying Factors Crafts Beginners Readership

Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir

Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir

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