Virginia Woolf Quotes

You must write to the people's expertise.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

I write to the vulgar more than the learned.

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.

Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.

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

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

I always take the audience into account.

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

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

I think if you are writing something that you are trying to design for someone else to like that is not necessarily you're demographic, it is a much harder road.

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

Style is important, but content comes first.

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.