Down and Quote by Cecily von Ziegesar

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

— S. E. Hinton

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

— Laurell K. Hamilton

There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing…

— Elmore Leonard

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

— V. S. Naipaul

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.…

— Harlan Coben

You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.

— Will Rogers

If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

— Tim Maleeny

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

— Kate Morton

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the…

— Dylan Thomas

Write like no one's going to read it !

— Tom Evans

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

— James Purdy

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

— Richard Ford