Fictional Quote by Curtis Sittenfeld

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

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you…

— Graham Greene

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

— James Lipton

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

— Katherine Paterson

If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as…

— Ian Sansom

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's…

— Augusten Burroughs

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to…

— J. D. Salinger

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Writing is great because in the writing you never have to... First of all you never have to leave your home. And you never…

— Woody Allen