Reader Demographics Quotes

When I imagine my viewer - and it sounds saccharine - but it's a family thing. People in line for my books came as families.

I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.

I don't think about the gender of my readers or about reader expectations. I'm frankly scared to. I figured out a long time ago that if I tried to guess the audience, it would be like me trying to guess which stocks to buy.

To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.

It seems like every ten years there's a book that says that poetry used to be popular, and now it's not, but we really have no way of knowing, in terms of relative size of audience and other things, exactly who readers were.

Then basically what was happening was that it was the middle '80s, and Rolling Stone realized that a lot of their readers had voted for [Ronald] Reagan, and they were going, "Gosh! We need a Republican! Does anybody know a Republican? Wait a minute! I think P.J.'s a Republican!"

There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these are books for adults. Actually, they're just stories, and if they're good stories, then they surpass those boundaries.

Chicago is my biggest base for U.S. readership. If I ask my readers where should I come, Chicago always has the most votes.

I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.

My readers are surprisingly mixed. I have conservative readers - for instance, women with headscarves - but also many liberal, leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, and secularist readers. Next to those are mystics, agnostics, Kurds, Turks, Alevis, Sunnis, gays, housewives, and businesswomen.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

I think people underestimate the romance audience. It's everything from career women to high school girls to elderly women. I have male readers, too, especially for the Civil War books.

It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

I think of our readers as young, conscious people. We can't underestimate how far-reaching our content is, especially these days.

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.

I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.