After Quote by Alan Bennett

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what you've written!

— Tara Westover

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have…

— Pankaj Mishra

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

— Philip Larkin

I'm really not used to people paying attention to my writing.

— Christopher Priest

I've been spending a lot of time poring over everything I've written, because I know people are going to hear it.

— Liv Bruce

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

— Sara Gruen

Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look…

— Gideon Glick

I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read what I…

— Maeve Binchy

It's the bane of my life and my existence, people telling me to be a little more succinct with what I write.

— Ben Howard

I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it…

— Blackie