Kind Quote by Chelsea Cain

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

— Sara Gruen

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

— Nikki Giovanni

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

— Charles Bukowski

In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just…

— Little Simz

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

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to…

— Robert Cormier

The chief reason I shove the reader inside the body - or more specifically, the chief reason I try to get the reader to…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

— Mark Twain

When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really…

— Donald Miller

I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go…

— Maria Semple

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

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read…

— Alan Bennett