Connection Quote by Cass McCombs

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

— Eudora Welty

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This…

— Michael Hersch

I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and…

— Roxane Gay

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

— Dean Lewis

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me,…

— Gertrude Stein

I ultimately write for myself and the people I love.

— Hisham Matar

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular…

— Harold Pinter

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write…

— Matt Haig

I write 100% of my material by myself. That's really important to me because I don't want what I'm trying to say to be…

— Jade Bird

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be…

— Jerry Spinelli

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share…

— Daphne Oz