Robert Cormier Quotes

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!

Whenever I write a part, I think there's this person somewhere in the world that this part is specifically for, and all I have to do is go searching to find that particular individual.

I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that.

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

I don't like writing with real people in mind.

So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.

I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!

I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for 'Twilight,' it's a pretty wide range.

I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

The best part of owning a blog is the fact that you are in control. You can write about anything you want to write about. You can decide how your blog looks. You can decide who to target. You can decide how to monetize the blog. You have full control!