An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other…

“Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one…

— Alan Bennett

“No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.”

— Irwin Shaw

“Sloan enjoys writing in the fictional world because in fiction you can be anything, do anything...even fall in love for the first time over…

— Sloan Parker

I'm not writing about the 1 percent of people who have this fairy-tale, amazing life. I'm writing about people like me, who maybe had…

— Anna Todd

I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people.

— Sia

It's a huge responsibility writing about people who are alive. It's the thing about writing that keeps me awake at night: dramatising real-life events…

— Simon Beaufoy

The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself.

— LP

I've realised that my strength is writing around people.

— Lee Mack

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the…

— David Cook

I'm nervous about our civic culture. I'm not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It's certainly the cause of careless writing.…

— Antonin Scalia

I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Jay Asher

I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

“If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.”

— Christopher Isherwood