Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write…

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the performing arts…

— Fernando Pessoa

“To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is…

— Annie Dillard

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them.

— Frank Zappa

No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.

— Sarah Vowell

“He is careful of what he reads, for this is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, as this is…

— Annie Dillard

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

— Khaled Hosseini

If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.

— Jack Driscoll

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.”

— Nikki Rosen

Some people write to remember, some people write to forget.

— Needa Muy

“To write, I need to remember, but I write to forget. I drink to forget, then get nostalgic when I’m drunk.”

— Shoshaku Jushaku

“Write like you can forget, write and forget. Hold an entire world in your palm then puff. Pierluigi Cappello”

— Claudia Serrano

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

— Allegra Goodman