Intended Reader Quotes

What I write is not for little girls.

I don't write for a particular audience.

If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to do it.

If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

Sometimes I write with a particular person in mind. I think it's fair to say that I write for a perceptive reader. You have to get it. If you don't get it the first time you may not understand. If you like repetition, analysis, explanation, you probably won't like my books.

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.