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'Invited to a conference to discuss the topic of ‘Writing for new and different audiences’, I could only say that, as a novelist and short story writer, with my own fiction I have rarely written for an audience or with an audience in mind. The responsibility of writers is to their art. Writers write what they are driven to or inspired to or motivated to write. Writing is a vocation, a calling, a mission. The writer endeavours to tell the truth. To evoke the world in all its richness and complexity and contradictions. A vision is a vision, not something to be tailored or trimmed or compromised by concerns about audience reception. As a young Chinese student said to me, to write what an audience expects is to fail to offer anything new. ‘Stale water,’ was how she put it.' (Introduction)
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Who Do You Think You Are Writing For?