Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

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

I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that they can relate to and care about. If you are writing only for a tiny elite, then that surely should sound alarm bells.

When I started off in journalism, you knew there was an audience out there and that you wanted people to read what you produced. But it also felt like you had a limited ability to shape the audience, or to acquire an audience, for what you were doing. So you didn't really think too much about that.

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.

I think every content can reach its potential audience if placed rightfully.

By having a blog, you can make yourself very accessible to your target audience. You can leave comments open on your blog so you can learn exactly what your audience likes about what you're doing with your business and about what they think you should change.

The first challenge that every writer or creator of material faces is getting through the crowd so that the person you're trying to sell it to hears the pitch and is able to respond to it.

The simple fact is, the more people who buy your books, the more are likely to read you. That's what I'd like to see happen.

When we started on 'BoJack,' it was understood that the Netflix model was to give shows time to find an audience, and to build that audience, and I remember being told, 'We expect the biggest day 'BoJack' Season 1 is going to have is when we launch 'BoJack' Season 2.'

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that there are people out there reading your work, people who may be deeply affected by what you do, that you are writing not just for yourself, but for them.

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write for yourself, then why don't you just keep it under the bed,' so I definitely write for other people.

I've never done much to try to build an audience.

We have to find ways to create content that folks want to see.

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I mean, I wanted people to love the book. And the only way to get them to love it is to try to make it good for them. So of course the audience has to be considered.

Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

I think any time you can go after an audience that isn't built in, that's the job.