About Quote by Elizabeth Berg

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

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

— Emma Healey

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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 can't control what a reader takes from a story.

— Marjorie Liu

I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages…

— Elmore Leonard

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

— V. S. Naipaul

I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't think about…

— Lidija Dimkovska

I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know,…

— Faith Ringgold

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I don't think about the reader when I'm writing, but I do when I'm editing, of course. For instance, I self-consciously didn't want to…

— Sheila Heti

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante