Awful Quote by Alice Walker

For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like…

— Sampha

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have…

— Zoe Kazan

You write for other people and it feels you're giving a little bit of yourself away.

— Dean Lewis

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care either. Which…

— Lauren Grodstein

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get…

— Anne Lamott

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for me, it's…

— Hilton Als

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my…

— Robyn Davidson

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter…

— Rick Riordan