Intended Audience Quotes

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

It is not fools that I seek to address.

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.