Tracy Hickman Quotes

People read me but they don't subscribe.

It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

You've got to write for your audience.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.

Once you get people's attention, you have a greater responsibility to tell them something of value.

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me.

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.

I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

Not many people read my stuff, but I really like the ones that do.

The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.

You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.

You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

I want to reach as many people as I can.

Make the paper interesting.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

The message that you're portraying, that's what drives the type of people that follow you.

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.