It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true. — Jonah Peretti Copy Share Image
Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image