I can Quote by Chinua Achebe

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

There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in yet, and…

— Mary J. Miller

“People often ask me what advice I have for writers, and I reply that the most important responsibility I believe a writer has is…

— Clive Barker

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write…

— Lauren DeStefano

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the…

— Jay Lake

I find putting oneself out there difficult. I think writing and sharing writing require different skill sets. I want to be read, but it…

— Min Jin Lee

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel…

— Howard Shore

I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no…

— Shannon Hale

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I have sometimes told people, probably wrongly, that there’s no point in writing at all if you don’t feel that there’s something you absolutely…

— Scarlett Thomas