Theophile Gautier Quotes

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for a younger audience but that what I was doing interested a younger audience, or at least threatened them less.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived.

On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

Nine per cent of my viewers are men, of which the majority is, I think, 45 to 50. I like to tell myself it's just my dad watching.

I can say whatever I want. So do not bring the kids. It's definitely rated R.

I want to reach everybody, from the little girls who are 3 years old, to the grandmother who watches my soap, to a young man in love.

I want to write about grown-up things.

I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year.

I don't write for a particular audience.

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 don't write for any particular kind of person.

Every newspaper lives by appealing to a particular public. It can only go ahead of its times if it carries its public with it. Success in journalism depends on understanding the public.

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.

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.

If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to do it.

I fantasize about the networks making a rule that each show's writing staff needs to reflect the gender and racial makeup of its audience.

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.

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