Books Quote by Dennis Lehane

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

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is to write…

— Sally Rooney

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

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world…

— Barry Eisler

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

Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to…

— Katherine Mansfield

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

— Theodore Dreiser

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really…

— Alice Walker

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

— Sara Zarr

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton