Always Quote by Emma Healey

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

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But…

— Amy Bloom

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature…

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

— Manuel Puig

I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

— Anne Sexton

I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that…

— David Lowery

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros