Concern Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

I write about what worries me and, hopefully, things worry me a little bit earlier than they do some other people, purely because I…

— Steven Knight

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

— Cyril Connolly

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Write what is important to you, regardless of fashion or marketability or anything like that – all those things are so far out of…

— Celine Kiernan

Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might…

— Freeman Dyson

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

— Christopher Paolini

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

— Jewel

I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And…

— Ed Koch

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down…

— Madeleine L'Engle

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

— David Baldacci

There's so much to learn in writing and in life, and in any particular era in one's life, it seems like a few concerns…

— Sheila Heti