When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it’s being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn’t have anyone around him to talk to about books and writing—maybe a would-be writer, maybe a little lonely, who depends on a certain kind of writing to make him feel more comfortable in the world.
Don DeLilloTags: loneliness reader audience readership
The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of the
audience.
Tags: life truth living audience participate
To tell you the truth, though, I still haven't made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Tastes differ so widely, and some people are so humourless, so uncharitable, and so absurdly wrong-headed, that one would probably do far better to relax and enjoy life than worry oneself to death trying to instruct or entertain a public which will only despise one's efforts, or at least feel no gratitude for them.
Thomas MoreTags: writing creativity audience
Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
Ezra PoundTags: value audience generalizations
My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.
Caroline GreenTags: life friends audience conscious what-people-think
Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.
Robert McKeeTags: choice story storytelling audience
There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.
Elizabeth HernandezTags: writers readers audience writers-on-writing
Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism.
Walter BenjaminTags: art film audience painting mass-culture reception
Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.
Don RoffTags: life art photography writing zen creative-process audience student painting creative master drawing assume tip masterful
I'm always trying to gain and keep the audience's respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn't think they're stupid for watching.
Dan HarmonTags: respect community audience
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