Henry Adams Quotes

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

In TV, in general, the more you try and please everybody, the less people you please.

I have the most loyal readers in the world.

If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then the reader shifts his loyalties.

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

There are obviously people who want to be very niche, but I think for the most part everybody is trying to reach a larger audience.

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

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.

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a 'Sopranos'.

I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.

I think 'Shameless' is more of an everyman's show, whereas as great as I think 'Girls' is, it's got a smaller audience.

When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too.

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

I'm getting a lot of mail from readers, and I'd say 90% seem to be from adults, which amazes me. But then again, I can only write what I imagine I'd like to read, and I'm an adult, so maybe it's not so surprising after all.

Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you could never meet. That's what got me interested in writing in the first place.

I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.

As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.

The TV audience is way bigger than a book audience, and no matter what I do, I'm always thinking if this will help people read my books.

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.

Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.

One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.