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You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you. -- Brenda Ueland
When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence. -- Michael Hastings
In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels. -- Gerald Clarke
I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page. -- Jim Crace
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! -- Paullina Simons
When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside. -- Judy Blume
What's interesting to me is how many vampire/urban fantasy authors are writing young adult series as well, often set in the same world as their adult books, but focused on a younger audience. -- Carrie Vaughn
I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it. -- Claudia Christian
I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience. -- Mary Lambert
Weedflower' was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn't really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience. -- Cynthia Kadohata
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach. -- Israel Horovitz
I don't think I would ever inch my way up to Y.A. That audience is very well served. There are a lot of wonderful writers writing for Y.A. I feel like I'm in the right place. -- Rick Riordan
As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition. -- Jon Landau
I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with books. When I felt that my writing for adults had become cemented, I decided to write a YA series. -- Sarah Mlynowski
When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there. -- Chester Bennington
If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is. -- John Lasseter
Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and simply as possible. I like clean, unadorned writing. So writing for a younger audience was largely an exercise in making my prose even more clear and direct, and in avoiding complicated digressions. -- Serge Schmemann
When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience. It's a stream of information, but you've got your hand on the tap, and you control in which order the audience receives it and with what emphasis, and how you hold it all together. -- Tom Stoppard
No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely. -- Steve Martin
I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author's public persona with the work itself. A good 'performer' can make a mediocre book sound strong, and a shy author can leave listeners missing the excellence of his or her writing. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience. -- Carl Reiner
The first audience that you have when writing a book is you. -- Isobelle Carmody
I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career. -- Marsha Norman
I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself. -- William S. Burroughs
In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write. -- J. K. Rowling
I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One. -- Ann Voskamp
I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience. -- Joan Didion
I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience. -- Berlie Doherty
I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one. -- Thomas Naylor
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. -- Ann Patchett
I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults. -- Louis Sachar
I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything. -- David Almond
I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read. -- Katherine Paterson
When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved. -- Conor Oberst
There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels. -- Jennifer Weiner

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